Ends this Friday (18) the 27th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27), held this year in Egypt. Over 12 days, the event brought together leaders and members of civil society from around the world to discuss challenges and solutions to tackle climate change.
Among the main objectives of this COP is to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The final agreement on COP27, in Egypt, should be presented in the coming days, with a consensus among nations on measures to curb the pace of global warming. a draft was introduced in the fifth, with about 40 pages.
Last year, the 26th Climate Conference in Glasgow approved a commitment, signed by more than 200 countries, to seek alternative energy sources. The final agreement brought a reference to fossil fuels, in particular coal, and their influence on the climate crisis.
Among the measures presented at the COP is an alliance between the three nations with the largest tropical forests in the world, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia. The countries formally launched on Monday (14) a partnership to cooperate in the preservation of forests after a decade of negotiations on a trilateral alliance.
China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has waved to a goal of limiting global warming.
China’s COP27 climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said Beijing would like the UN Climate Summit’s climate deal to set a target to limit global warming to 2°C, and added that countries should aim for 1.5°C. – commitment similar to the language agreed in the Paris Agreement in 2015.
Brazil at COP27
Brazil was represented by a delegation from the current government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and members of the team of the president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), who will assume the Presidency of the Republic in 2023 and attended the event this year.
In his speech at COP27 last Wednesday (16), Lula stated that his government reinforces the commitment to end deforestation by 2030.
“There is no climate security for the world without a protected Amazon. We will spare no effort to bring deforestation and degradation of our biomes to zero by 2030, in the same way that more than 130 countries have committed to by signing the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests”, he said.
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.
According to the petista, “Brazil has returned”.
Lula speaks at COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt / 11/16/2022 REUTERS/Emilie Madi
Lula proposes COP30 in the Amazon
The president-elect said, on Wednesday (16), that he will propose to the United Nations (UN) that COP30, scheduled to take place in 2025, be held in Brazil, in the Amazon.
Lula’s statement during a parallel event to COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, came in response to a request made by the governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho (MDB) – who spoke on behalf of the Legal Amazon Consortium, composed of the governors of the nine Brazilian Amazon states.
After reading a letter in which the governors proposed an alliance with Lula’s government in defense of the Amazon, Barbalho said that Lula “has leadership and authority to propose to the UN that Brazil be the host of the COP”.
United States
US President Joe Biden speaks at the climate conference COP27 last Friday (11), saying that the global climate crisis poses an existential threat to the planet.
In the speech, Biden announced more than $150 million in new support to accelerate efforts under the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) across Africa.
“The climate crisis is about human security, economic security, environmental security, national security and the very life of the planet,” Biden said.
A group of protesters protested inside the UN plenary during the official speech of the US president. They did not interrupt Biden’s speech, but they got up from their chairs, wielded signs and made loud sounds, which were captured by the media during the broadcast of the speech around the world.
China
According to Zhenhua, multilateralism and cooperation are key to solving global climate change.
“No matter how much the external environment changes, and no matter how many challenges we face, China is firmly determined to achieve this vision of carbon neutrality,” he told delegates at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
France
French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated that efforts against climate change must be urgently implemented. The statement was made in his speech on Monday (7).
“Every minute wasted is a minute in which the problem [mudanças climáticas] becomes more difficult to resolve and the injustice becomes greater. It gets harder to resolve for all of us, and the injustices grow even more for the countries that are the most impacted,” Macron declared.
The French leader also mentioned the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, saying that “the hardest consequences are always in the same countries”.
Germany
In a speech at COP27, German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz announced that the country will increase its annual climate investments in the country to 6 billion euros.
Scholz said Germany would offer 170 million euros for a G7 “global shield” to protect the V20, a group of the planet’s 58 most vulnerable nations. The idea, according to the premier, is to strengthen protection against insecurity and natural disasters.
The German stated that one of the country’s priorities is to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
“Let’s stop using fossil fuels! There must not be a global fossil fuel renaissance. […] We need more cooperation in the shift to renewable energy. This is the imperative of the moment. Our firm promises must be followed by firm actions.”
UN
The secretary general of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, defended the implementation of universal systems to prevent environmental damage within a period of up to five years.
In a video played at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Guterres said that people and communities everywhere must be protected from the immediate and growing risks of the climate emergency.
“We must respond to the planet’s distress signal with action – ambitious and credible climate action,” said the Secretary-General.
*With information from Fernanda Pinotti, from CNN, from CNN Internacional and from Reuters.
Source: CNN Brasil
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