The vice president of the Republic, Hamilton Mourão, declared in a conversation this Thursday (4), transmitted to the Brazilian stand at COP26, in Glasgow, that the Brazilian state needs a “permanent policy for the Amazon” that is “independent of the shift government”.
“The Brazilian state must have a permanent policy for the Amazon. A region that corresponds to 60% of Brazil just considering the Legal Amazon, almost half if we consider the Amazon biome, has to have a consistent policy regardless of the shift government”, said Mourão during a conversation with Joaquim Leite, Minister of the Environment.
Officials met in Brasilia, despite the conversation being broadcast in the UK, to talk about potentials involving the bioeconomy, sustainable tourism and possibilities for payments for environmental services in the region.
“If we also add to the product of the bioeconomy the value of the activity of protecting forests, we will make a policy that will preserve the territory. It is the people who live in the Amazon who protect the Amazon”, said the minister.
Mourão, who is president of the National Council of the Legal Amazon – a body recreated in February 2020 to coordinate actions in the biome –, also stated that the region’s policies should be focused on identifying potential “forest products” and said that the “predatory development is impossible to carry out” in the Amazon.
When mentioning possible Amazonian products, Mourão mentioned the water in the area. “There are many places with a water crisis, and we have water to give and sell. I have no doubt that one of the Amazon’s export products will be water,” he said.
The 5G auction, scheduled for this Thursday (4), was also commented on by both. Mourão considered that the implementation of technologies would be a “revolution” for the region.
Both Hamilton Mourão and Joaquim Leite avoided touching points sensitive to the federal government, such as the records of increased deforestation in the region and, consequently, the greater volume of pollutant gas emissions and increased violence against indigenous populations, for example.
On COP26, the Brazilian government announced new targets involving a 50% reduction in carbon emissions into the atmosphere by 2030, based on the year 2005. The country also signed decrees involving the emission of methane and the commitment to end deforestation by 2030 .
Reference: CNN Brasil
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