UNDP Report 2007/8 states that the country contributes 0.0% on global emissions - Mozambique among the countries causing less environmental threat
Maputo, 28 November 2007 - Data from the Global Report on Human Development 2007/2008 indicates Mozambique as one of the countries with negligible participation in the climate changes in the world, as it contributes with 0.0% only of the global emissions.
According to this document produced by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and launched on the 27th November 2007, all over the planet, emissions from Mozambique, with 0.3% world population, represent an average of 0.1 tones of carbonic dioxide per person. This factor can contribute for this African country to face constraints in achieving the millennium development goals (MDGs). Essentially, the MDGs foresee poverty reduction to a half of the population of the developing countries up to 2015.
The United States of America (USA), considered the country that more threatens the environment in the world, releases to the atmosphere an average of 20 tones of carbonic dioxide per capita, as per the same document aiming at evaluating the performance of the PIB, as well as the welfare indicates, life expectation, access to education and health of all countries under the spirit of the present edition that is the fight against climate changes in the planet.
However, the UNDP report also mentions that as per evidences brought from a 2005 Mozambique is four steps bellow in the table on the Index of Human Development, among the 16 worse classified in a list including also other Portuguese speaking countries such as Angola (162nd), Guinea-Bissau (175th), Sao-Tome e Principe (123rd) and Cabo Verde (102nd).
Besides Members of the Mozambican government and civil society was also present at the launching of the report the UNDP Resident Representative and United Nations Coordinator in Mozambique, Ndolamb Ngokwey. In this occasion, Ndolamb Ngokwey, said that the battle against the climatic changes can be successful in case all the nations in the world cooperate in these efforts, as neither financial resources nor technological capacities are missing for this purpose.
Recent scientific studies refer that the African continent is responsible only for 3% of carbonic dioxide global emissions since 1900. Meanwhile, its 840 million inhabitants face some of the highest risks on the climatic changes impacts due to frequent droughts and significant reductions on water reserves.