The Brazilian minister of Environment, Carlos Minc, arrived on Monday (09/28) in Buenos Aires (Argentina) to attend the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP-9). Minc will argue for global investment of US$ 150 billion in adaptation actions in the semi-arid and desertified areas in the world affected by global warming, which is due to climate change. He will lecture today (09/29) on the subject.
It is expected that during the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP-15), which runs from December 7-18 in Copenhagen (Denmark), the participant countries will reach an agreement on the creation of an adaptation fund of US$ 400 billion. Minc believes that US$ 150 billion out of this amount should be invested in desertified and semi-arid regions around the planet.
The minister emphasized the importance of applying Brazilian and global resources in the Northeastern region of Brazil, where 30 million people live. He said that Brazil is the country with the largest number of inhabitants in a semi-arid region.
According to him, if global temperatures rise two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, the Northeast will have a thirty percent downturn in its economy. That's why a massive investment in adaptation actions is necessary to avoid a major disaster in the region.
The minister believes that the Brazilian Congress will approve, by the end of October, a bill establishing the Climate Change National Fund that will receive 10% of oil royalties, which would ensure about US$ 1 billion per year for actions to combat the effects of climate change. He also claimed that half of these resources are to be applied in the Northeast.
In his speech on Tuesday (09/29), the minister will emphasize the importance of agreements with Africa, where there are semi-arid regions that suffer from desertification action. He will suggest the use of satellite services from the brazilian National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) for monitoring green areas in Africa, in order to prevent environmental degradation.
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