Rio de Janeiro - The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, said on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that Angola has been taking its climate action programme very seriously, in order to contribute effectively to reducing the adverse effects of environmental pollution.
The President of the Republic was speaking at the 19th G20 Summit, '3rd Session: Sustainable Development and Transition', which has been taking place since Monday in Rio de Janeiro.
In this regard, it should be noted that the country is working hard to modify its electricity production matrix, evolving towards clean sources.
In this context, he highlighted the fact that 64% of the energy produced in the country is generated by clean sources, of which 60% comes from hydroelectric dams and 4% from photovoltaic solar energy panel parks.
'This effort is part of Angola's contribution so that, through functional mechanisms to promote the energy transition, we can comply with and respect international understandings on this matter, with special emphasis on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, within the scope of which we decided to work on the approval of a strategy on electromobility, on the responsible exploration of hydrocarbons and on the decarbonization of the oil sector,' he said.
In this sense, the President added that the country wants to expand the scope of its contribution to ensuring the energy transition in Southern Africa, making surplus clean energy production available to countries in the region, for which the private sector is invited to build, in public-private partnerships, electricity transmission lines to countries in the Southern African region.
'The example mentioned above serves to demonstrate that, if on the one hand developed countries have the investment capacity and master renewable energy source technologies essential for the decarbonization of the energy sector, on the other hand low- and middle-income countries continue to have difficulties in implementing them,' warned the Angolan statesman.
For the Head of State, the adoption of laws with supranational effect that limit the extractive industry, of which oil production stood out, deserve a balanced and realistic approach so as not to fall into extreme solutions.
Such a scenario, according to President João Lourenço, would end up creating difficulties of all kinds, affecting the development efforts of the neediest countries, and could aggravate the situation of poverty of the populations. ADR/ART/DOJ
