President of Congo reaffirms need to change energy matrix towards cleaner sources of energy

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The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, participates in the Amazon Summit, where he explains that his country is also seeking funding to change the energy matrix and stop using coal, in order to protect its forests. teleSUR

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00:00 Your Excellencies, President Albi, Democratic Republic of Brazil, heads of state of the

00:14 countries who integrate the Hamas treaty, firstly, I would like to say to President Lula, thank

00:28 you very much for having me here and being able to share my thoughts and concerns.

00:40 Also for the hospitality and the warm welcome that we received.

00:52 It's an honor for me to be able to participate in this summit, to be able to share my thoughts

01:07 and concerns with Brazil and the rest of the countries who integrate this organization.

01:26 I'm very grateful to be able to participate in here and see the projects of different

01:32 organizations who are working to find a solution for the problem we are addressing here.

01:42 This initially was only a very attractive idea.

01:51 But over the years, it became a global initiative of great importance, which we can collaborate

02:09 on, taking into account the attendance of different countries for the summit.

02:22 To be together and discuss the important matter of the well-being of the Hamas-Hamas area

02:29 and the surrounding countries.

02:42 We are gathered here today, as we have done other times, to be able to set a strategy

02:50 to protect and preserve the natural biodiversity of the Hamas-Hamas region.

03:07 The summit gave us the opportunity to unite our forces, to be able to think and join our

03:15 ideas to be able to find a solution for the ecological crisis.

03:27 The effects of the climate change can be translated as an ecological pandemic, which we need to

03:36 address as soon as possible.

03:44 In order to solve this crisis, we need to stop talking and discussing about what we

03:50 need to do and to take concrete actions against the problem, the crisis we are having.

04:08 The forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo come with a very diverse flora and

04:14 fauna, which can relate to the one that these countries have in the Amazonian region.

04:34 The forest area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo represents about 10% of the country

04:47 and 38% of the forest area in Africa.

05:10 In this forest area, we have several species of plants and animals, which we need to protect

05:19 and we need to fight for its well-being.

05:25 In order to do that, we need the collaboration of all countries, taking into account that

05:34 most countries that directly affect the green area of the world are industrialized countries.

05:54 We need to set different strategies of production of toxic gases.

06:00 We need to stop the emission of toxic gases to the atmosphere or at least reduce it.

06:09 We need as well to establish alliances between the countries, which is paramount in the fight

06:25 against climate change.

06:40 In previous meetings regarding this topic, we have addressed several times this problem

06:45 and this topic, and we have come to a conclusion that all countries, including the Democratic

06:58 Republic of the Congo, we are seeing that the effects of climate change

07:15 are very harmful both for African countries as well as the rest of the world.

07:22 This crisis has been aggravating over the years, and that's why we need to take action

07:27 immediately.

07:36 We are trying to find the proper financial support to be able to reduce our toxic gases

07:44 and other substances that are harmful to the environment.

07:58 By doing this, we will grow economically and we can adopt new strategies, different strategies,

08:06 to be able to grow economically and both take care of the environment.

08:12 In order to do this, we are working on green technologies, and we are working on having

08:24 clean cities, which means not only to keep clean our cities, but also to have clean technologies.

08:37 This area has very important minerals, which are very important for developing these kind

08:46 of technologies.

08:57 Ladies and gentlemen, once again, I express my gratitude for this meeting, gathering here

09:05 heads of states of different parts of the world, countries that are home of one of the

09:13 biggest green areas, the biggest green area in the world.

09:21 This kind of summit should be a permanent kind of meeting, especially because we need

09:26 to keep addressing this topic and we need to share thoughts and concerns and ideas to

09:32 be able to set new strategies for taking care of the environment.

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