National Strategy for Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change, 2013-2025.

The Government of Mozambique presents its National Strategy for Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change (ENAMMC) for the period 2013-2025, which includes strategic and priority lines to be adopted and implemented as well as the action plan for 2013-2014. ENAMMC consists of five chapters: 1. introduction and rationale of the strategy; 2. methodology used to prepare the document; 3. assessment of vulnerability, impacts of Climate Change (CC), opportunities, and the current state of integration of CC into national development policies; 4. strategy vision, mission, principles, general and specific objectives and strategic actions grouped under two main pillars: climate risk adaptation and mitigation and low carbon mitigation and development. ENAMMC is also based on a set of cross-cutting issues that contain actions that facilitate the implementation of the two relevant pillars; 5. implementation mechanisms, including coordination, implementation of the ENAMMC itself, monitoring and evaluation, and funding.
This Strategy is based on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Hyogo Framework for Action on Disaster Risk Reduction. The strategy is therefore based on the basic principles of these international treaties and on national policies on gender and social equity and MC, as well as a set of sectoral policies and strategies aimed at facilitating and promoting a harmonious and resilient development of MC and the mechanisms of energy efficiency and the sustainable use of natural resources.
ENAMMC's overall objective aims to establish action guidelines for building resilience, including the reduction of climate risks, in communities and national economy, and to promote the development of low carbon and green economy through their integration into the sectoral and local planning process. The specific objectives are as follows: make Mozambique resilient to the impacts of CC, minimizing climate risks to people and goods, restoring and ensuring the rational use and protection of natural and built capital; identify and implement opportunities to reduce GHG emissions that contribute to the sustainable use of natural resources and access to affordable financial, technological resources and reduce pollution and environmental degradation by promoting low carbon development; and create institutional and human capacity, as well as explore technological and financial resource opportunities to implement ENAMMC.
The Strategy identifies adaptation and reduction of climate risk as a national priority, while recognizing the need to take advantage of the opportunities the country has, without prejudice to development actions, to reduce the impacts of CC through a mitigation and development. Strategic actions are thus grouped into two main pillars and cross-cutting issues as follows: 1) Adaptation and reduction of climate risk, through: strengthen the early warning system; capacity to prepare the response to climate risks; increase the capacity of water resources management; increase access to and capacity for abstraction, storage, treatment and distribution of water; increase the resilience of agriculture and livestock; increase fishing resilience; ensuring adequate levels of food security and nutrition; increase the capacity of vulnerable people; reduce people's vulnerability to disease transmission associated with climate change; ensure and protect biodiversity; promote mechanisms for planting trees and establishing forests for local use; develop resilience mechanisms for urban areas and other settlements; adapt the development of tourist areas and coastal zones to reduce the impacts of climate change. 2) Low carbon mitigation and development, through: improving access to renewable energies; increasing energy efficiency; ensure compliance with regulated standards for emissions from logging industry activities; promoting low carbon urbanization; controlling the emissions from industrial processes including associated waste and effluent; developing low-carbon farming practices; reducing the rate of deforestation and uncontrolled fires; planning and managing biodiversity and coastal ecosystems; managing waste; and 3. Cross-cutting issues.