The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, said today (17) that the decision to apply for the city of Belém, capital of Pará, to host the 30th edition of the United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP30) ), in 2025, is to present the materialization of the results of the commitments assumed by the country with the environmental issue.
“Having the COP30 in Brazil is to send a signal that we want to achieve these objectives and we want it to happen in an environment that is no longer one of statements, but of results. Brazil has always led by example, led by example in the fight against poverty, in the fight against deforestation, in the reduction of CO² emissions”, said the minister during her participation in the Davos Economic Forum, alongside the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, at the table Brazil: a new script.
Holding the event in the Amazon region has already had been defended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his participation in COP27, in November, in Egypt. The announcement of Brazil’s candidacy to host the event was made on January 11with the formalization of the request to the United Nations (UN).
“We hope to be able to host the biggest climatic event in the world in a city part of the Brazilian Amazon”, said the president in his Twitter profile.
The federal government sent the finance and environment ministers to represent the country at the Economic Forum this year, whose theme is cooperation in a fragmented world.
During her participation, Minister Marina Silva announced that the government is already working to resume actions to combat deforestation and to restructure the portfolio.
“In the case of deforestation targets, we’ve already returned with the Amazon Fund, with the Plan to Combat Deforestation and we’re already recomposing the budgets of the ministry’s teams. the minister himself [da Fazenda, Fernando] Haddad helped us in the transition to add another R$ 500 million to the Ministry of the Environment, and to ensure that donation funds are not placed in the spending ceiling”, he said.
Marina reinforced the message left yesterday (16), by Haddadsaying that the government will work hard to stabilize democracy and face the problems arising from social inequality, “because we have 33 million Brazilians who suffer from hunger”, and to promote a new cycle of prosperity, based on sustainable development.
“The great potential we have, because we have a clean energy matrix, to produce green hydrogen, a development that will be fundamental for economies and countries that are experiencing the problem of energy insecurity, especially in the context of Russia’s war with Ukraine,” he said.
