During a meeting held this week in Brasília, the ministers for the Environment, Carlos Minc, Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, Science and Technology, Sergio Rezende, and representatives of the Ministry of Finance and Civil House discussed the proposal Brazil will present at the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in December in Copenhagen (Denmark).
"The meeting was very productive", says Carlos Minc. According to him, the participants discussed the adjustments that will be made to the original document, produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA) and presented on October 13 to President Lula. "Looking at the request from the Minister Dilma [Rousseff], we have already ordered the Ipea [Institute of Applied Economic Research] scenarios based on economic growth of 5% to 6% annually until 2020", says the minister - the original document considers a growth of 4%. "These studies should be ready in few days", he says.
To Minc, the analysis of economic scenarios of further growth in the GDP [Gross Domestic Product] is relevant. "This request from Minister Dilma is interesting because it is possible that the Brazilian economy will grow more than 4% per year", he says. "Our goals will not result in a restriction on our development and on the fight against social exclusion, inequality and poverty", he emphasizes.
The proposal prepared by the MMA includes an 80% reduction in deforestation in the Amazon until 2020 and it also limits the emission of carbon dioxide. The idea is that Brazil maintains, in 2020, the same level of CO2 emissions recorded in 2005. "We considered the level recorded in 1994, which was 1.5 billion tons. In 2005, Brazil emitted 2.2 billion tons, and in 2020 the estimate is that we reach 2.8 billion tons", said Minc. "But for that, we need to take strong actions", he says.
According to the MMA's secretary of Climate Change and Environmental Quality, Suzana Kahn, who attended the meeting, for Brazil to reduce the CO2 emissions, it is not sufficient to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. "It is necessary to make arrangements in different sectors such as industry, agriculture, transport and energy. The reduction in CO2 emissions will have to be a government policy as a whole, not just of the MMA", she says.
Brazil will also propose a global target of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to the participants of COP-15. "We will ask countries to reduce their emissions, but giving our example, doing our 'homework'", said the minister. The final version of the Brazilian proposal to COP-15 will be presented to President Lula on October 20.
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