The third day of COP27, the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, was marked by a critical speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Speaking via video, the Ukrainian leader attacked politicians and businessmen who use the climate agenda as a “marketing” tool and said the issue was not taken with the seriousness it deserves.

Classes began today in the Brazilian pavilion at the conference. The country, which will be represented next week by current Environment Minister Joaquim Leite, has been excluded from an international partnership to monitor forest conservation. The agreement signed yesterday brings together 26 countries, including the European Union plus Brazil’s neighbors that share the Amazon rainforest.

Brazil outside

The initiative, called the Partnership of Leaders for Forests and Climate, is an extension of the Declaration on Forests, drafted during COP26 in Scotland last year, of which Brazil is a signatory.

The partnership, which closed this year, included countries with the world’s major tropical forests, with the exception of Brazil. America of the The South is represented by Colombia and Ecuador. Countries in Africa, Asia and Oceania are also part of the group.

In a note sent to the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, the State Department stated that the country did not participate in the partnership because there were better and more ambitious forums to address the issue.

According to Itamaraty, a renewal of the payment program to reduce deforestation, a project of the Green Climate Fund, would be the most appropriate measure.

“We don’t think this new initiative at COP27 – FCLP – offers the best format to meet the needs of developing countries,” Itamaraty told Folha.

Again today at COP27, Colombian presidents Gustavo Petro, Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro and Suriname Chan Santokhi called for a new international alliance to defend the Amazon. The idea of ​​the heads of state is to bring together all the countries of the Amazon basin in the enterprise.

$2 trillion order A report commissioned by the COP27 presidency and released today states that developing and developing countries, excluding China, will need US$2.4 trillion (about R$12.3 trillion at current exchange rates) per year by 2030. against climate change.

According to the document, USD 1 trillion of the total amount has to be paid by international investors, developed countries or multilateral organizations. The rest will come from developing countries’ own economies, private or public resources.

According to the document, this investment is necessary to “reduce emissions, strengthen resilience, address the loss and damage caused by climate change, and restore land and nature.”

Zelenski’s statement. The Ukrainian president said in a video speech to the COP today that the war with Russia that began in February this year raises a number of pressing issues for the planet.

As Zelensky emphasized, the conflict with the Russians triggered a global energy crisis, destroyed forests, worsened hunger and brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster with the takeover of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.

The world needs honesty. If we do not take the climate agenda seriously, we will make a disastrous mistake.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Wages to rich countries. A group of leaders from small island countries and African countries that have suffered from severe climate disasters in recent years have called for more effective action from governments of wealthier countries.

One of the criticisms came from Ranil Wickremesinghe, President from Sri Lanka. The leader of the Asian nation, an island off the coast of India, has criticized the rich countries for their economic priorities.

“While many countries find it appropriate to wait to contribute to climate finance, these are the same countries that are currently at the forefront of the war in Ukraine and are not afraid to spend a lot of money on a conflict.” said.

The president of Palau, a country suffering from rising sea levels in Oceania, appealed to the international community. “We are suffocating. Covid-19 has drastically devastated our economies and the climate crisis is tearing us apart as we try to rebuild ourselves,” he said.