The Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva, called on developed countries to take the lead in a global process to abandon the use of oil and other fossil fuels.
Marina spoke this Saturday morning (9) at the COP28 plenary, held in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
She also said that the success of COP30, which will be held in Belém do Pará in 2025, depends on the results of the meeting underway in Dubai.
“If, on the one hand, there is a clear need for all countries to put their foot on the renewable energy accelerator, on the other, we need to make urgent and simultaneous efforts by producing and consuming countries to take their foot off the fossil energy accelerator. The effort belongs to everyone, but developed countries must lead this slowdown process”, she said.
Marina’s speech is part of the Brazilian government’s negotiation efforts, which advocates that rich countries be the first to cut oil production and consumption.
According to the logic of Brazilian negotiators and other countries that defend the same position, rich nations have historically emitted the most greenhouse gases. Furthermore, the rich hold resources and technologies that have enabled a faster transition to other clean energy sources.
Developing nations, on the other hand, would have longer deadlines to continue using fossil fuels – which would give time, for example, for Brazil to continue extracting oil from the pre-salt and, eventually, from the mouth of the Amazon River.
One of the main issues under discussion at COP 28 is related to the end of the use of fossil fuels in the global energy system, with civil society, the UN and some countries defending the establishment of a deadline for oil to stop being explored and consumed. .
The large producers, however, are lobbying so that the issue is not even mentioned in the final resolution of the meeting.
In addition to defending that the rich stop using oil first, the Brazilian minister also defended the creation of a specific body to take care of this transition.
“I think it is essential to create, within the scope of the UNFCCC, a forum for discussion and negotiation to address this issue with the required urgency. Responses that take into account national differences and circumstances and alternatives for social and economic development, especially for the most fragile,” she said.
The minister continued, remembering that Brazil will host the COP in two years.
“In 2025, Brazil will host COP30, in the city of Belém. The success of this meeting will depend on us being able here at COP28 to approve a General Balance aligned with 1.5ºC in all its dimensions: in pre-2030 actions, in recommendations for future NDCs, in the commitment of new financing and means of implementation and in a Global Adaptation Objective consistent with the real risks, especially for the most vulnerable populations”, he stated.
Brazil has been leading discussions at COP28 of what it has called “Mission 1.5”, in reference to attempts that all policies adopted at the climate summit refer to efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, on average, in relation to the pre-industrial period.
Source: CNN Brasil
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