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Angola: Portugal, Country Sign Agreement On Climate Changes
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
25 April 2008
Posted to the web 25 April 2008
Luanda
A memorandum of understanding for co-operation in the area of climate changes and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol was signed Thursday between the Angolan and Portuguese Environment ministers.
The Angolan Urbanisation and Environment minister, Diakumpuna Sita José, and the Portuguese minister of Environment, Territory Arrangement and Regional Development, Francisco Nunes Correia, signed the document.
The agreement outlines as objectives the foment of the co-operation between both countries in the area of climate changes, through the stimulus of developing and implementing the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), adopted in December 1997 in the United Nations Framework Convention.
The memorandum comprises activities in this field, through the identification of opportunities to carry out project activities by the public and private sectors of both countries, as a valid strategy to foment sustainable development in Angola and facilitate Portugal in the accomplishment of its international commitment in the ambit of the Kyoto Protocol.
Therefore, the development and implementation of activities and projects will be encouraged, as well as make available information to facilitate the closeness between private and public agents of both countries.
Speaking at the event, the Portuguese minister underlined the importance of signing the memorandum, which to him will increase the mechanisms of implementing the Kyoto Protocol recommendations, "in which all actions should be engaged to resolve the problem of global warming".
He added that the agreement will improve the cooperation between both countries and peoples, promoting the exchange of knowledge, so as to resolve the problem of climate changes.
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On his turn, Sita José considered that this convention opens a new page in the ambit of the co-operation between the two countries in the environment sector.
The Angolan official expressed total availability of Angola to materialise this agreement, and he thinks that it will benefit both countries.
The meeting of the incumbent environment Ministers of the community was divided into two segments, namely technical (from 22 to 23 April) and ministerial (April 24) and included the holding of parallel meetings of Water Department officials of the Portuguese Speaking Community Countries (CPLP) member states and the meeting of focal points on environmental education and representatives of environmental associations.
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