Brazil inaugurates social participation pavilion at COP29
Brazil on Tuesday (Nov. 12) inaugurated a social participation pavilion at the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Themed Pathways to Ecological Transformation, the pavilion is a place for meetings as well as a chance to showcase Brazilian initiatives to tackle climate change.
In the presence of the entire Brazilian delegation and an audience that fully occupied the space, vice-President Geraldo Alckmin highlighted Brazil’s leading role in global talks on climate change.
Alckmin discussed the regulation of the carbon market in Congress, the reduction of deforestation in Brazil’s efforts to eliminate the problem, and the delivery of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), with targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which he termed extremely bold.
“We’re going to move from 2.2 billion tons of CO₂ equivalent to a target of 850 million tons of CO₂ equivalent by 2035.”
- Cadu Gomes/VPRBrazilian Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva pointed out that the efforts discussed at the meeting in Baku—branded the finance COP—should help Brazil host the implementation COP (COP30).
“What spells success for this COP29, beyond the issues being discussed here? Surely it’s the financing tools, without which what we announce are nothing but words,” she said.
In her view, climate financing should enable adaptation and mitigation plans as well as the creation of new development models. The path, the minister said, has been mapped out through public policies to tackle fires, the implementation of the Climate Plan, the Pact for Ecological Transformation, and the results achieved by the current government.
“We don’t want to be content with the figures we have achieved; we want Brazil to be the hotspot for prosperity, not leaving aside, as President Lula says, the fight against inequality, prosperity, the protection of biodiversity and indigenous people, keeping our country democratic and sustainable, with dialogue across all sectors.”
On Brazil’s ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to be unveiled tomorrow (Nov. 13) to the United Nations at COP29 in Baku, she stressed Brazil’s role on the global stage.
“I hope we’re able to map out the path to transition, the end of fossil fuel use, the end of deforestation, so that no one is left behind,” she concluded.
*The reporter traveled at the invitation of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
