President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has already arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where COP27 (United Nations Climate Change Conference) is being held. According to the press office of the incoming president, Lula will have a private meeting with the US climate ambassador, John Kerry, this Tuesday afternoon.
However, the exact time of the meeting was not disclosed. In the morning, the president-elect went to rest. travel About 12 hours in a residence offered by the Egyptian government.
PT is the most anticipated international name this second week of the UN Climate Conference, which ends Friday (18).
During these three days in Egypt, Lula must meet with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, as well as representatives of at least a dozen countries such as China and Germany. In this final part of the conference, his speech at the UN general assembly was what aroused the most anticipation, as most of the heads of state from the 197 participating countries were present in the first week of the event, which started on 8 November.
American Joe Biden (11) attended the opening of the conference where French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on Friday.
President Jair Bolsonaro will not attend the event, which he never attended during his four-year tenure. Lula received an invitation from Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sissi shortly after the results of the Brazilian runoff election, but will not officially represent the country as he will take office on January 1, 2023.
This will be Lula’s first international agenda after being elected. The president-elect first received an invitation to attend the meeting from Helder Barbalho (MDB), the re-elected governor of Pará. There is still an expectation that Lula will participate in activities in the field of civil society, under the auspices of the Bolsonaro administration, and not in the chair of the federal government.
Brazil’s potential
At the Brazilian Climate Action Center, the civil society mobilization continues at full speed. This Monday, a group of organizations, with the participation of Ministers Marina Silva and Izabella Teixeira, prepared a package of proposals for the future government in the fields of environment and climate.
In another incident, land use experts, which include agriculture, deforestation and fires, pointed out that Brazil has everything to become the first country in the world to achieve zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. control of deforestation associated with better agricultural practices.
“If we eliminate emissions from land use, there is a 77% reduction in Brazilian emissions compared to 2005. If we consider the carbon exchange in the soil with pasture management, we can remove another 230 million tons absorbed in agricultural soils. Tasso Azevedo, general coordinator of MapBiomas, adds 200 million to this account. “If we add that it is possible to reduce tons of methane, our emissions are practically residual,” he said.
*Information from RFI Special Envoy Lucia Müzell
source: Noticias
