Angola ratified the UNFCCC in May 2000 and the Kyoto Protocol in March 2007, reaffirming its commitment to implementing measures and programmes to stabilize GHG emissions. In the same year the first strategy for climate change was approved ("National Strategy for Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol", Ministry of Urbanism and Environment, 2007), which sought to "establish the framework for intervention in legal, technical and human terms to contribute to the stabilisation of GHG emissions and technological development of the country. In November 2015, Angola submitted its national contribution to the UNFCCC for reducing GHG emissions ("Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) of the Republic of Angola"), where it proposed to unconditionally reduce its GHG emissions by 35% by 2030 compared to the baseline scenario (base year 2005), and also, through international funding, to reduce a further 15% of its GHG emissions by 2030.