Africa-Press – Angola. The governor of Huíla province, Nuno Mahapi, advocated today, Friday, in Lubango, the need for the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) to reinforce its commitment to protecting the environment, in order to improve the quality of life of citizens.
Concern was expressed in the welcome message addressed to participants at the IX Meeting of Ministers for the Environment of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), in Lubango, under the motto “Environmental Emergency in the Current Context of Multiple Crises”.
According to Nuno Mahapi, this strengthening of the commitment to protecting the environment will be reflected in the context of combating poverty, promoting sustainable development and good governance practices.
The official highlighted that Angola, since its independence, has assumed itself as a State where the environmental issue has always been in line with its priorities and with the President of the Republic João Lourenço, this reality occupies a privileged place in the political agenda, within the framework of international organizations, where Angola makes its voice heard in line with global commitments, on the environment as sustainable objectives.
He also underlined that the province of Huíla, made up of 14 municipalities, is a region with ideological geographic diversity that is reflected in the richness of peoples, languages and cultures, whose richness is often affected by climate change.
The VIII Meeting took place in November 2020, via an electronic platform, and was focused on strengthening cooperation to reduce biodiversity loss and tackle climate change.
The event will present a proposal entitled “Climate Heritage of Humanity”, “Concertation process for the possible legal recognition by the UN of the “Stable Climate” as a global common good”, and interventions by Member States on “Environmental Emergency, Challenges and Opportunities”, among other points.
The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) was established through the Constitutive Declaration of July 17, 1996, at the Conference of Heads of State and Government that took place in Lisbon.
This summit brought together Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe. Years later, Timor-Leste joined in 2002 and Equatorial Guinea in 2016.
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