Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of the Environment, Ana Paula de Carvalho, announced this Thursday, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), that Angola will sign, at COP 28, the Methane Agreement, which aims to reduce emissions of this gas by 30 percent by 2030.
The global initiative coordinated by the United Nations (UN) is dedicated to quantifying and managing methane emissions, mainly in the oil industry, with a focus on mitigating climate change.
According to the minister, in statements to the press, methane released directly into the atmosphere is more powerful than CO2, however, with a shorter useful life.
He recalled that the initiative did not go ahead at COP 27, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, because the country did not have “comfortable conditions for this purpose”.
He said that Angola, with this accession due to comfortable conditions already existing, will have an improved participation in relation to the others, as it will also bring initiatives aimed at improving the world climate.
We will also, he said, present ideas to make the world greener, with more environmentally friendly agricultural practices, as well as the energy transition, that is, the change from thermal energy to clean sources.
On the other hand, Ana Paula de Carvalho highlighted that the opening day of the event is dedicated to meetings between ministerial delegations present at the meeting promoted by the United Nations.
“After the Summit of Heads of States and Governments on the 1st and 2nd, from Sunday onwards, we will have thematic days, where Angola will present, among others, topics on security and peace, health, environment, miners and oil and gas”, he highlighted.
He highlighted that the environment ends up being a transversal sector, hence the presence of several ministerial departments to focus on their achievements in relation to climate change.
On the 10th, he said, after the presentation of the themes, the parties will have two days to negotiate, in order to obtain financing to advance their actions aimed at improving the quality of the environment, water, air and soil.
The 28th United Nations Conference on Climate Change, also called COP (Conference of the Parties) 28, began this Thursday in Dubai, UAE, and ends on December 12th.
Sharm el-Sheik, in Egypt, last year, passed the testimony to Dubai that “it is required” to make a global assessment of the world’s climate situation, after eight years of the Paris Meeting.
At COP 21 in Paris, in December 2015, the so-called Paris Agreement emerged, in which almost all countries in the world committed to limiting the increase in the global average temperature to two degrees Celsius (2oC) above pre-war values. industrial, and preferably not exceed 1.5oC.
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