President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said in his speech at COP27 that “the fight against global warming is inseparable from the fight against poverty and inequality”.
In several moments of his speech, Lula referred to the need to help the poorest countries and people in combating the extreme effects of the climate.
Speaking to a friendly audience full of political allies, climate activists, informal supporters and diplomats, the petista sent messages to several different audiences.
At first, he recognized the world’s difficulties at the time. “We live in a time of multiple crises – growing geopolitical tensions, including the return of the risk of nuclear war, food and energy supply crisis, erosion of biodiversity, intolerable increase in inequalities,” he said. Soon after, however, he made several demands on the developed world to assume its responsibility for the climate crisis.
The president-elect also said that the world needs financial mechanisms to remedy losses and damages caused by climate change.
This is a central point in the COP27 discussions, encouraged especially by Egypt, the host country. Discussions on the subject, however, have not advanced because rich countries try to avoid committing themselves to paying this kind of compensation to poorer nations —which suffer disproportionately from climate change, although they have had very little responsibility for the emission of greenhouse gases. stove.
Lula also sharply criticized the current government of President Jair Bolsonaro, saying that it was “disastrous in every way”.
“In the fight against unemployment and inequalities, in the fight against poverty and hunger, in the neglect of a pandemic that killed 700 thousand Brazilians, in the disrespect for human rights, in its foreign policy that isolated the country from the rest of the world, and also in the devastation of the environment”, he stated.
Finally, he defended multilateralism and stated that Brazil intends to hold a summit between the South American countries that share the Amazon rainforest. In addition, he proposed holding the COP30, in 2025, in a Brazilian Amazonian state.
In a direct criticism of the UN, he called for reform of the UN Security Council and proposed a new system of global governance. “It is necessary to include more countries in the UN Security Council and end the veto privilege, currently restricted to a few, for the effective promotion of balance and peace, he said – in practice, asking that Brazil be part of the most important security mechanism in the world.
Source: CNN Brasil
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