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The broadcast "Breakfast with the President" (Café com o Presidente), aired on radio on December 21, looked into the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-15), held this month in Copenhagen. During the conversation, President Lula said that the feeling left from the meeting was "a feeling that leaders from the whole world will have to take this issue as a priority so that we will find a decisive solution and to guarantee the maintenance and existence of the Planet Earth, allowing the survival of the human species".

According to Lula, "everyone knows that the guiltiest are the industrialized countries, i.e. those that have started polluting long before Brazil, China, India and other countries; because they are industrialized since 200 years ago. What is under discussion now is what measures we will take to curb global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, I think this is something that was made very clear to everyone, both who had agreed with it and to those who didn't". And Brazil had a very prominent position at COP-15. According to the President, the country has established greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets of 36.1% to 38.9% by 2020, while also proposing a reduction of 80% in Amazon deforestation by 2020.

"And we have decided other three important things: to reduce deforestation in the Cerrado biome; in our steel industry sector, we will work for the utilization of charcoal and not mineral coal, also with the objective of reducing greenhouse gases; and in our energy mix, which is already the cleanest in the world - considering electric energy alone, we have 85% of clean power generation. Brazil was, thus, in a very comfortable position. Brazil was considered, during the whole meeting, as the country that had the best proposal, as the country that worked on this issue appropriately. And thank God the governmental decision we have submitted to the National Congress was approved and is now a law. Therefore, this is no longer the will of President Lula. Now, whoever is governing this country will have to comply with it", said he.