The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it is somewhat sensible to limit the development of the Rovuma basin gas projects in the north of the country, since their link to fossil fuel consumption is a problem to be solved globally and "not at the expense of one country or another".

According to the IMF representative in Mozambique, Alexis Meyer-Cirkel, who spoke on Monday about the regional economic outlook and the Lusophone nation, Mozambique is a country that emits very little carbon, proportionally to the population (30 million inhabitants) and compared to other countries in the world.

"I think that this discussion, preventing Mozambique from developing this wealth, disproportionately penalizes a country that has not contributed" like others to the creation of the problem and that is a poorer country," Alexis Meyer-Cirkel considers.

For Alexis Meyer-Cirkel, Mozambique's gas is reasonably clean compared to other non-renewable sources. And in this sense, the Rovuma gas should play a key role in the Mozambican economy in the next decade.

However, the IMF representative in Mozambique believes that the transition to renewable sources will take some time and this transition can only be made with non-renewable sources, at least for a certain time.