Maputo, 04 December 2023 – This was the narrative of the President of the Republic, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, during the panel that officially launched the Energy Transition Strategy of Mozambique, Saturday, December 2, in Dubai, in a parallel event to the 28th United Nations Conference on Climate Change, commonly known as COP28.
COP28 takes place in an environment of increasing pressure for countries to adopt more robust measures for the decarbonisation and use of clean and environmentally friendly energy sources. Meanwhile, Mozambique, which contributes less than 0.5% of greenhouse gas emissions, advocates a fair energy transition that allows countries with fossil resources, such as Mozambique, which has about 180 TCF’s of natural gas resources, the possibility of exploiting them in a sustainable way to develop its economy and contribute to its industrialization and global energy security.
In his speech during COP 28, the President of the Republic said that Mozambique is among the 10 countries most suffering from the adverse effects of climate change, causing natural disasters that have affected millions of people and destroyed various economic, social and productive infrastructures. The country therefore supports innovative financing initiatives such as debt conversion by climate action, access to concessional funding for developing countries and other initiatives aimed at reducing the emission of gases into the atmosphere.
It should be noted that, Mozambique that elected natural gas as its transition energy, already has a clean energy matrix, 70% of the energy produced comes from water sources, 14% from natural gas and 16% from other sources, especially solar energy, so its exploration and production will, on the one hand, allow the country to make available the use of the global market and, on the other hand, ensure that by 2030 all Mozambicans have access to electricity, generated from renewable sources and natural gas.
The Energy Transition Strategy launched by the President of the Republic adopts four main pillars, namely (1) Modern energy system, based on renewable energy sources, (2) Green Industrialization, (3) Universal access to modern energy, and (4) Adoption of clean energy for transport, the second pillar providing for an Integrated Domestic Gas Plan, the gradual reduction of dependence on mineral coal, the decarbonisation of energy in the mining sector, the sustainable extraction and processing of critical minerals and the strategy and route of hydrogen production.
It should be noted that this Summit, which began on 30 November, takes place under the auspices of the United Arab Emirates government, and will extend until 12 December. Several world leaders attend the event, including leaders from hydrocarbon-producing countries. The INP is part of the delegation of the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy and will lead a panel at 10 a.m. on December 6 at the Mozambique Pavilion to discuss "the contribution of natural gas in the energy transition in Mozambique". For more information, please contact the National Institute of Petroleum, located on Rua dos Desportistas No.259, Maputo, by numbers 21248300 or 839511000. You can also write to e-mail comunicacao@inp. gov.mz and visit our facebook and linkedIn pages to be aware of this and other outstanding subjects.
