Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the United States of America (USA), Joe Biden, praised, yesterday, the performance of the Angolan Government in the defense of the environment, within the framework of facilitating actions to adapt to climate change.
The US statesman was speaking at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27), taking place at the Tonino Lamborghini International Convention Center Sharm el-Sheikh, in the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Joe Biden highlighted, on the occasion, the fact that Angola joined the list of beneficiary countries of the facilitation project for adapting to climate change, based on transparency, partnership, protection of workers and the environment.
One of the many projects already underway and with satisfactory results, emphasized Joe Biden, is the partnership between US companies and the Angolan Government, embodied in an investment of two billion dollars for the construction of new solar projects in Angola.
President Joe Biden also alluded to the agreement signed in Washington last September between the Ministry of Energy and Water and Sun Africa, a US company operating in the Renewable Energy sector, in an act witnessed by the Head of State Angolan, João Lourenço.
In his speech, the American statesman asked, on the other hand, that all countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions, assuring that the United States of America is doing its part in the fight to limit global warming.
He also highlighted the need for all countries to do more, renew and raise their climate ambitions.
In front of an audience of more than a thousand personalities participating in the COP27, taking place until the 18th of this month, Joe Biden recalled that his country is making available 150 million dollars in initiatives that specifically support climate adaptation efforts throughout Africa, including the adaptation exercise that Egypt and the United States jointly launched in June.
The North American President also spoke about the African nations considered most vulnerable, food insecurity and hunger, after four years of intense drought in the Horn of Africa, the floods of the Niger River, West Africa, due to the intense rains, which caused enormous damage to fishing and farming communities.
On Nigeria, he alluded to the floods that recently caused the death of 600 people and displaced more than 1.3 million people.
Moreover, Biden summarized the climate crisis as an element that threatens human security, economic security, environmental security, national security of countries and the very life of the planet.
Against this background, he shared indications of how the United States will face the climate crisis with urgency and determination to guarantee a cleaner, safer and healthier planet for all.
Its actions, according to the President of the United States of America, will help make the transition to a low-carbon future more accessible for all, accelerate decarbonization, beyond its borders.
He admitted that the world faces a daunting challenge, especially due to the war between Russia and Ukraine, which is accelerating and expanding food shortages and increases in energy costs, increasing volatility in these energy markets, raising inflation global.
He noted that “Russia’s war only heightens the urgency of the need to transition the world away from its dependence on fossil fuels”.
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