Baku - The Vice-President of Angola, Esperança da Costa, on Thursday in Baku, gave a positive assessment of Angola's participation in the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP29).
Speaking to the press before leaving Azerbaijan to Angola, Esperança da Costa said it was an opportunity to analyze, with around 190 countries, the issue of improving the most urgent global action on climate change.
According to the Vice-President, there are some limitations, especially the issue of funding, which needs to be more accessible to the countries that suffer most from the “ferocity” of extreme weather events.
“We thought that, at the Heads of State Summit, there were encouraging statements so that everyone, as a community, can look at this phenomenon of climate change as a global phenomenon and not something particular, and we have to tackle it in a united way and quickly, so that the temperature doesn't rise by more than 1.5 degrees,” Costa said.
As regards to bilateral actions, the Vice-President highlighted the courtesy meeting with the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, Ali Asadov, with whom she discussed some issues on bilateral cooperation, as well as the signing of an agreement and a memo for public consultations on issues of common interest with the Kyrgyz Republic.
With EQUINOR, Esperança da Costa said it was another approach from the perspective of the energy transition and decarburizing of the oil sector for the development of renewable energy projects or low-carbon projects.
The Vice-President highlighted the meeting with the head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, with whom she assessed the projects that have been supported by this fund, linked to food systems, support for continental fishing in Angola and the development of family farming.
“The balance was positive in this area and so we are also considering extending this support to other provinces of our country, in order to improve the nutritional and food security of the population,” she said.
According to Esperança da Costa, the visit to the Azerbaijan University of Petroleum served as an opportunity to revize previous agreements with the Republic of Azerbaijan in the area of science and staff training, at a time when it belonged to the former Soviet Union.
“Therefore, we can see the progress they have made in technology, the training offer they have at the moment and the suitability of the various laboratories, in a permanent search for excellence,” she said, stressing that they have developed innovative projects that can be geared towards the productive sector and the development of entrepreneurship.
According to the Vice-President, Angola wants to return to a good relationship of cooperation in the field of science and technology, in order to train people of excellence linked to technology and the development of engineering up to 2050.
Angola has made a lot of progress in terms of soil studies and identifying potential areas for the exploitation of various minerals, the Vice-President stressing that this is an area where cooperation between the two countries will be possible with reciprocal advantages. FMA/ART/AMP
