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Brazil to recommend internal consultations toward reducing greenhouse emissions
Criado em 07/11/13 11h00
e atualizado em 07/11/13 11h02
Por Ana Cristina Campos
Fonte:Agência Brasil
Brasília – Brazil intends to recommend that countries hold consultations with all sectors of society to address targets in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, during the 19th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-19), which will take place on November 11-22 in Warsaw, Poland. In addition, it will suggest that the developed nations immediately tighten their emissions reduction targets, and that the developing countries volunteer to implement their own efforts to this end.
The Undersecretary-General for the Environment, Energy, Science and Technology of the Foreign Ministry, José Antonio Marcondes de Carvalho, Brazil's chief negotiator in international environmental conferences, regards these commitments as critical to advance negotiations toward a new global climate agreement which is to be signed in the 2015 Climate Conference in Paris, effective in 2020. Countries will begin to work on the new agreement next year.
According to Carvalho, “the purpose of the consultation is to provide legitimacy and garner support from all sectors of society for any goals that we might undertake. Immediate action is needed to break this inertia. We haven't seen the same amount of effort [to reduce emissions] on the part of developed countries.”
Another proposal from Brazil is to have the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change come up with a methodology that enables each country to determine their historical accountability for global warming.
According to Carvalho, one of the COP-19 goals is to “lay the grounds” for negotiations on a new global climate agreement, by setting a calendar of meetings that would enable transparent and inclusive participation of all countries. “These are complex negotiations because they concern consumer practices ingrained in the society and the productive sector.”
Asked if Brazil's pre-salt petroleum production would be detrimental to the country's role in climate negotiations, the ambassador said that there is no contradiction between the country's energy policy and its commitments in reducing emissions: “Brazil is not the only oil producing country in the world. We are beginning to exploit a wealth that lies beneath our land.” Burning fossil fuels, however, is a major cause of greenhouse emissions.
Carvalho pointed out that “Brazil's efforts make it absolutely trustworthy, if only because it has proactively volunteered to significantly reduce its emissions [by reducing deforestation],” and added that the country will also recommend “advancing research in carbon sequestration.”
Edited by Nádia Franco / Lícia Marques
Translated by Mayra Borges
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