Brazil plans to arrive in 2020 with the same rates of greenhouse gases emissions reported in 2005, assuming a growth rate of 4% per year on average. The goal being negotiated within the Federal Government was announced by the Brazilian Environment minister, Carlos Minc, during the 6th Forum of Governors of the Legal Amazon, held on Friday (16/10) in Macapá (AP).
Minc and the governors reached a consensus on the need to promote more and more actions to preserve the Amazon Rainforest. The minister emphasized the importance of the approval of three bills pending at Congress and that if voted now will be part of the Brazilian proposal which will be presented at the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP-15), in December in Copenhagen (Denmark).
The bills include the Payment for Environmental Services, the creation of a Climate Change Fund, with funds from the exploitation of oil (about R$ 1 billion/year) and the FPE Green (amount of resources transferred to the states by the Federal Government that will ensure greater volume of funds to units of the Federation that carry out actions to protect the environment).
Carlos Minc said that the Forum is crucial to relations between the Federal Government and the states of the Amazon, and that it will allow Brazil to appear more united and strengthened in Copenhagen. "An historic agreement was sealed between the governors of the Amazon and the Federal Government, as there is a consensus on proposals for forest conservation. Thus, we have a bold goal to exert influence and build a bridge between developing countries and the developed ones", said the minister.
By 2020, the Brazilian government wants to reduce by 80% the rate of Amazon deforestation and decrease the carbon emissions from 40% to 20%. A new inventory of greenhouse gas emissions is being prepared by the Ministry of Science and Technology and will serve as a benchmark for these goals. "This inventory will not be ready in time for COP-15, but we already have a document made by the Ministry of Environment, with estimates of reductions", Minc said.
Minc said that the degraded and desertified areas must also be the subject of debates during the event in Denmark. And he argued that in addition to reducing emissions, rich countries must commit to the decarbonization of developing countries.
The governors of the Amazon states have decided to carry out actions to include on the discussions of COP-15 the reduction of emissions due to deforestation and degradation. They want to create a mechanism to compensate the country financially for it this is the main proposal of the Charter of Macapá, adopted at the end of the Forum.
The minister of Environment agreed with the document presented and suggested the addition of two other proposals: that the countries have minimum targets of greenhouse gases emissions reductions (at least 25%); and that they contribute to the Global Fund, whose resources will be used for adaptation and mitigating actions to face the effects of climate change.
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