Presidential Decree 85/14 which approves the Statute of the Ministry for Environment (MINAMB)
This Presidential Decree approves the Statute of the Ministry for Environment (MINAMB). The Statute establishes attributions, composition and competences of the MINAMB. MINAMB is responsible for co-ordinating and overseeing the implementation of measures, strategies, plans and projects on climate change. It is also responsible for promoting projects and programmes to stabilise GHGs. This Presidential Decree creates the Climate Change Office within the MINAMB.
The Climate Change Office is the implementing agency of the National Climate Change Programme. The Office should promote projects and programmes promoting emission reductions. The Climate Change Office has the following responsibilities: (i) co-ordinate and oversee the implementation of measures for the development of strategies, plans and projects on mitigation and adaptation to climate change; (ii) promote projects and emission reduction programmes, and sustainability in order to stabilise GHG; (iii) promote projects and preventing drought and desert encroachment programmes by reducing emissions; (iv) identify and co-ordinate projects under the Clean Development Mechanism; (v) ensure the participation of Angola in the global carbon market; (vi) facilitate integration of adaptation and mitigation programmes aimed at integrating the phenomena of drought disasters and environmental conservation; (vii) promote and co-ordinate the development of policies, programmes and actions to control and reduce emissions of GHGs; (viii) promote and co-ordinate strategies aimed at establishing the framework for intervention in Angola in the legislative, technical, prevention, mitigation and adaptation field to contribute to the stabilisation of emissions of GHGs.
It further establishes that the Department of Drought and Desertification and the Department of Vulnerability to Climate Change operate within the Climate Change Office.
