Nairobi - African countries attending the first African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, discuss Monday the funding promised since the Paris Agreement in 2015.
"These promises have not happened to this day", Angola's Environment minister Ana Paula de Carvalho told the press on Sunday evening, while talking about the country's preparations for the event.
The minister, who is part of the delegation led by Angola Vice-President, Esperança da Costa, said African countries are amongst those that pollute the least, but suffer "drastically" from the consequences of pollution caused by industrialised countries.
"We call once again for this funding to be made available to implement the actions planned to reduce global temperature levels", the minister said.
The Paris International Climate Treaty was signed by 195 countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The treaty came into force on November 4, 2016, after being adopted in December 2015, with industrialised countries, which are the most polluting, committing themselves to finance projects to mitigate and adapt to climate effects in the least polluting countries, especially Africa.
Globally, the 195 countries, including Angola, also committed themselves to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) to keep the earth's average temperature below two degrees centigrade (2oC).
Ana Paula de Carvalho said that, at the time, it was agreed that actions would be taken to reduce temperatures.
Failures "pull" new commitment
In view of the failures to comply, the countries will sign a new commitment to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, a document to be presented at the Conference of the Parties on Climate - COP28, to be held in December in the United Arab Emirates.
Despite being a low polluter, Angola continues to work to contribute to the reduction of gas emissions by building clean energy projects, whose energy matrix is led by hydroelectric sources in the order of 56 per cent, or 3,320.12 megawatts.
The energy transition is also another bet of Angola, a process that already has photovoltaic centres in some regions of the country.
According to the minister, Angola needs to create resilience in communities due to climate changes, create early warning stations, especially in the south of the country, where there have been prolonged droughts and floods.
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