Angola has released a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) 3.0, covering the 2025-2035 period. In this NDC 3.0, Angola commits to unconditionally reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 5% by 2035 compared to a 2020 Business-as-Usual (BAU) scenario, corresponding to an estimated mitigation level of 37.49 MtCO2eq in 2035. This GHG emission reduction target could be raised to 11% by 2035 (conditional contribution), corresponding to an estimated mitigation level of 49.3 MtCO2eq, based on the provision of international support and funding.
Those targets are less ambitious than in the previous NDC released in 2021 (unconditional reduction target of 15% in 2025 and 21% in 2030 compared to a BAU scenario and conditional reduction targets of 25% and 36% in 2025 and 2030, respectively). However, due to improved national inventories and a revised reference scenario based on 2020 data, they should correspond to a greater absolute reduction in GHG emissions.
Angola ratified the Paris Agreement in 2020 and its total GHG emissions stood at 211.5 ktCO2eq in 2020, of which 84% came from land use and land use change, 10% from energy, and 2% each from agriculture and waste. Contrary to the 2021 NDC, identified mitigation actions mainly focus on reforestation, assisted forest regeneration, and biomass-fired power generation, rather than on the development of renewables for electricity generation and on reducing gas flaring.
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