Meio Ambiente

This weekend (January 23 and 24), the minister of the Environment, Carlos Minc, participates in a meeting of the Basic (group formed by Brazil, South Africa, India and China), in New Delhi, India, which will resume climate talks in order to create a viable proposal that could guide the global negotiations that will happen throughout the year (in June, in Germany, and in December, in Mexico).

At the meeting, Brazil will propose to the group the creation of a fund to help poor nations to finance actions for mitigation and adaptation to climate change, with values to be defined. Minc said that China has shown an interest in the proposal, in conversation during the COP-15.

To the minister Carlos Minc, the initiative will be a response to the rich countries, which, according to him, offered a miserable amount to help poor countries in adaptation projects during the COP-15. He believes that groups such as the Basic and the European Union need to unify their position and speed up negotiations lest another failure, such as the COP-15, occurs.

To Minc, selfishness was the cause for the failure of COP-15. To solve this, he argues for a "Planetary Ecological Solidarity" to help poor countries in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Rich countries have committed to donate US$ 30 billion in three years and you arrive at the $ 100 billion by 2020.

The Basic will also discuss, in New Delhi, the transfer of technology. Minc defends that along with the technology, technical assistance should be given to permit the proper use of the tools. "Countries like Australia, Canada and the United States should immediately provide the technology to countries like China and India which would allow them to store carbon underground", he said.