Mozambique’s energy ministry recently said it will not comply with a United Nations (U.N.) campaign seeking to pressure countries worldwide to abandon their coal industries for supposedly “cleaner” energy options, the state-run Mozambique News Agency (AIM) reported on Wednesday.
“A lot is said about abandoning coal. But right now, coal is the major contributor to the balance of payments and in second place we have heavy mineral sands. So, we cannot abandon these sources from one day to the next, because the necessary conditions must be in place for us to do this,” Mozambique’s Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, Teodoro Vales, said during a public seminar on April 28, according to AIM’s May 4 report.
Vales made the remarks during a seminar on “the challenges and opportunities for promoting an inclusive energy transition in…
