Brazil has the potential to be part of the solution in the fight against climate changes said the Minister of the Environment, Joaquim Leite in an event this Tuesday (16).
Leite defended that it is necessary to “encourage, create a new green economy, neutral in emissions by 2050”.
For the minister, Brazil has a volume of renewable energy and technological capacity sufficient to carry out this process in a “smart, profitable” way, allowing an improvement in the population’s quality of life and giving scale to the green economy.
Among the measures taken by the federal government to encourage this process, he cites the creation of a climate fund to finance biomethane and green hydrogen projects and a decree to regulate the carbon market .
“It is a birth certificate, with a single registration platform, mandatory sector to be aligned with the national goal, low carbon industry, extraordinary revenues for green projects and, most importantly, the opportunity to register the carbon footprint of the Brazilian product” , explains.
The minister said that Brazil has already made the energy transition to more renewable sources, which gives it the potential to be an exporter of renewable and cheap energy and being a generator of global energy security.
“Geopolitics has changed with the pandemic and the war, the world is looking for countries that are close, friends and with green energy, and that country is Brazil. We will be the security of green energy for the world, especially for Europe”, he evaluates.
For Leite, the biggest global challenge today is energy, with a search for surplus and cheap renewable energy, an area in which Brazil has taken the lead with the expansion of sources solar and wind and with the potential of offshore wind energy in the ocean.
“There is a gigantic opportunity in marine wind, a frontier to produce energy, one of the cheapest in the world, by sea, this is what the world looks to Brazil for, to be an exporter of clean energy”, he says.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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