Decree-Law No. 42/2022 creating the National Authority for Combating Climate Change, I.P. (AND).

This Decree-Law creates the National Authority for Combating Climate Change, I.P. (AND). The AND is a public legal person, integrated in the indirect administration of the State, in the form of a public institute, endowed with technical, administrative and financial autonomy and its own assets. AND acts in strict accordance with the relevant legal system, namely in environmental matters. The AND performs the functions of the Designated National Authority for the flexibility mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, ratified by Timor-Leste through National Parliament Resolution No. 6/2008 of 7 May, whose main mission is to approve the participation of national public and private entities in projects related to a clean development and emissions trading, and serves as an interlocutor between the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and the Green Climate Fund.