Brazil proposes strategies to reduce CO²

The subject “environment and climate change” can never be ignored. Just see that planet Earth has been the same for millions of years, and will be occupied by around 10 billion people who will compete for space, magnetic waves, food, water, air, and will generate monumental volumes of trash, in addition to the abysmal waste , such as food.

The 24th conference of the parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP24) took place in Poland, in December 2018 – in fact, one of the admired countries, mentioned by our new Chancellor Ernesto Araújo – and there, our Secretary of Change for the Climate and Forests from the Ministry of the Environment, Thiago Mendes, was successful in revealing Brazilian progress in concrete actions, by companies and government, recording a decrease in deforestation in the last ten years, which falls from 20 thousand km² to 7,9 thousand km² per year. year.

Under the Paris Agreement, all countries have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to limit the average increase in global temperature to below 2°C and as close as possible to 1,5°C.

We have a lot to do in our six biomes: pampa, Atlantic forest, caatinga, cerrado, pantanal and Amazon. States such as Mato Grosso and Tocantins have reduced illegal deforestation considerably, by 80% in the last 15 years.

In Poland, we presented 42 projects, with the participation of civil society, enabling a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions – CO². Among them, which we consider vital and strategic for Brazil, will be the growth of the Crop, Livestock and Forest Integration system (ILPF), and as the former Minister of Agriculture, Alysson Paolinelli has said and worked, the rural producer of the future it will also be a water producer; a water manager with managed sustainable irrigation.

One of Brazil's initiatives was not approved, which was to create a mechanism to encourage private sector actions to reduce global warming. An idea with which I completely agree, as the sum of the GDP of the five thousand largest private corporations on the planet places them within the three largest economies in the world.

And, without a doubt, we will be increasingly dependent on strong corporate governance, which today has much more impact than governments.

Therefore, Brazil needs to insist on the mechanism to encourage private initiatives in CO² emissions. There is no point in wanting to get out, on the contrary, on the inside of this movement we will have many more opportunities than the sum of the difficulties.