“Brazil is back!”: the president-elect of the Latin American giant, Lula, proposed this Wednesday to organize the world climate conference in 2025 “in the Amazon”, a green lung essential for the balance of the climate and global biodiversity.
An announcement that comes to revitalize a COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, mired in disagreements, as well as the reaffirmation by the G20 summit in Bali of ambitious climate objectives.
“We are going to talk to the UN secretary general and ask him to hold COP30 in the Amazon,” said Lula, who will take office on January 1 and is making his first trip abroad to attend COP27 since his election at the end of from January. october.
“Brazil must not remain isolated” on the international stage, he stressed. “Brazil is back” and “will be a positive force to face global challenges,” she had already tweeted on Tuesday, upon her arrival in Egypt. Under Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil was effectively marginalized, particularly due to the far-right president’s policies that favor agribusiness and the mining sector, with a massive increase in deforestation.
Exchange with the United States and China
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the other hand, promised to fight for “zero deforestation.” He is scheduled to deliver a long-awaited speech in Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday afternoon.
Lula met Tuesday night with US climate envoy John Kerry, who promised that “we will work diligently to achieve this goal (of preserving the Amazon) together.” He also met the Chinese climate envoy at the COP.
China and the United States are, in that order, the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Recent diplomatic tensions between the two countries have raised fears over climate talks.
But delegates to COP27, where discussions are marked by strong opposition, particularly on financial issues, were reassured by the conclusions of the G20 summit in Bali.
These countries, which account for 80% of global emissions, have pledged to continue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C, the most ambitious goal in the Paris Agreement. They also called for the reduction of “inefficient” subsidies for fossil fuels, responsible for global warming. Meanwhile, US Presidents Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a long face-to-face talk and vowed to relaunch their climate cooperation.
“Weak Eraser”
“The positive signs from the G20 summit should bring a breath of fresh air to the negotiations in Egypt, which are entering their last days,” said Ani Dasgupta, chair of the World Resources Institute think tank.
Harjeet Singh of the NGO Climate Action Network said these “generally positive” commitments from the G20 contrasted with the “weak draft” of the final declaration at COP27.
The 2015 Paris Agreement aims to limit warming to well below 2°C compared to the pre-industrial era, if possible 1.5°C. While every tenth of a degree leads to an increase in climate disasters, the signatories to the agreement pledged last year at COP26 to “keep alive” the more ambitious goal.
But according to observers, Saudi Arabia and China, members of the G20, had made known at COP27 their reluctance, already expressed in the past, to see this reference in the final text again, as the world moves towards catastrophic global warming. 2.8°. c.
The Amazon rainforest, of which Brazil is home to 60% of the total area, is the largest carbon sink in the world, essential to combat climate change. But under the influence of global warming and deforestation, it is now very fragile and, according to a study published in March, is approaching a “tipping point” faster than expected, which could transform it into savannah.
Protecting the Amazon will be a “strategic priority” after Lula takes office on January 1, 2023, former environment minister Marina Silva, a member of the president’s team, who was chosen and approached to assume this ministry.
Source: BFM TV
