The National Commission for Civil Protection (CNPC) – A Comissão Nacional de Proteção Civil (CNPC)
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National Civil Protection and. Firefighter Service (SNPCB) – e o Serviço Nacional de Proteção Civil e Bombeiros (SNPCB)
The Government of Angola recognises the country’s vulnerability to climate change and is aware of the impacts the country has already suffered. Floods, droughts, soil erosion,and rising sea levels are the main effects of climate change in the country, according to a report by the Ministry of Environment.
The main institutional body responsible for DRR and management is the National Commission for Civil Protection, through the DRR Direction.
The Strategic Disaster Risk Prevention and Reduction Plan 2013-2017 refers to a Risk Reduction and Prevention Technical Committee, constituted by the ministerial departments with leadership responsibility in this field. The National Strategy to Climate Change 2018-2030 (ENAC) results from the need to articulate objectives, instruments, and institutions in the pursuit of the latest challenges facing the country.
Climate
Angola is a large African country, located in the southern hemisphere and overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, and its climate is tempered by a cool sea current along the coast and by the altitude in the plateau, which is found in the interior.
The result is a sub-tropical climate almost everywhere. From May to August, ie the austral winter, there is a cool and dry season (called Cacimbo), while in the austral summer, there’s usually a hot and rainy season, which runs from mid-September to April in the north-east, from mid-October to April in the center, from November to March in the south, while along the coast, it only goes from February to April in Luanda, and it’s almost non-existent on the southern coast (which is therefore desert).
The cool sea current that flows along the coast, the Benguela Current, makes the climate mild and dry, at least in the central and southern parts; in the southernmost part of the coast, the climate is even desert. In inland areas, the rains are generally more abundant than on the coast, but here too, they are more abundant in the center and north because of the greater proximity to the Equator.