Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, announced this Wednesday that the country will submit its National Climate Change Adaptation Plan to the United Nations Framework Convention by next September. The plan will reflect the actions to be implemented in the areas of agriculture and food security, water resources, resilient infrastructure, ocean protection and public health, the Presidency of the Republic announced on social media.
João Lourenço provided this information during the Leaders’ Meeting on Climate and Just Transition, which took place today in virtual format, in a joint initiative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva.
The meeting brought together statesmen such as Xi Jin Ping, Chinese President; Emmanuel Macron, French President and Samia Suhulu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania.
António Costa, President of the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, were also among those taking part in a meeting that reaffirmed long-standing concerns about global warming, with leaders of island countries reiterating the serious threat to their survival from rising sea levels.
The speakers defended the need to secure the promised funding to address climate change, in the order of trillions of US dollars.
The Angolan President, for example, considered that the implementation of the new funding target – in the order of 1.3 trillion dollars per year until 2035 – “will be a real test of the credibility of the international system”, concluding that “the energy transition will only be fair if this commitment is honoured and accessible to all developing countries”.
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