The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, said that the 30th edition of the Conference of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP-30), which will take place in Belém (PA) in November this year, will be an opportunity for countries to strengthen climate multilateralism, ie global cooperation against climate change.
“COP-30 is a way of strengthening multilateralism and seeking new paradigms,” the minister said during a press conference.
The conversation with the journalists was held shortly after the last of the six regional meetings of the so -called Global Ethical Balance (BEG)a social mobilization initiative that took place this Friday (19), in New York.
In the company of the designated president of COP-30, Brazilian ambassador André Corrêa do Lago; From the founder of the Earth Ethics Center, Karenna Gore and the Special Counselor of the UN Secretary-General for Climate Action and Fair Transition, Selwin Hart, Marina highlighted the importance of strengthening diplomacy and climate multilateralism that they are under threat.
“Multilateralism risks being shattered and this would be the worst of worlds,” said MarinaShortly before, when answering a question about “the setbacks on the environmental agenda,” quot the US decision to leave the so-called Paris Agreement, agreed upon by 195 countries, during COP-21, to face and try to reverse global climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and avoiding an increase in the average overall. Industrial, in the late 18th century.
“Of course this is a huge damage. The US is, by far, the largest economic power, the second largest issuer [de gases de efeito estufa]the largest technological power. If they are not aligned with the Paris Agreement, there is a huge damage and we will not be neglected by not recognizing it. On the other hand, this is the opportunity to […] That different countries can give a demonstration of strengthening climate multilateralism, ”said the minister.
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She stressed that climate challenges require a change in perspective and the implementation of initiatives to enable, by 2035, the US $ 1.3 trillion needed to support developing countries to perform greenhouse gas emission reduction actions and adaptation to the impacts of climate change and the gradual replacement of fossil, polluting fuels such as oil, charcoal and natural gas, by renewable energies, by renewable energy. (solar, wind, hydroelectric and biomass).
“We still have a limitation of renewable sources to meet all the demand for energy, especially from the economic sectors, but this has to be overcome by the supply of clean energy”
The minister emphasized that the decisions already made anymore can be delayed. “How to triple [o uso de fontes de energia] Renewable, duplicate energy efficiency and invest, global and nationally, in a clean and diverse energy matrix that replaces these fossil sources. If not, it becomes an eternal excuse: we don’t make the transition because there are no alternatives yet [capazes de atender a demanda]but not investing [no desenvolvimento e disseminação das] alternatives, ”he concluded.
Also during the press conference, Marina commented on the price issue of the stay in Belém during the COP-30. “They are unacceptable,” he said, ensuring that the Brazilian government has been adopting appropriate measures to ensure that international delegations and civil society can participate in person in the event.
“In partnership with the Government of Pará, the federal government has sought the legal means that it has to put a brake on these exorbitant, unacceptable prices,” said the minister.
Marina Silva stressed that, in other editions of COP, in different countries, the value of the daily rates increased, on average, three times compared to the amounts usually charged. This time, in Belém, there are reports of increases up to ten times. “It’s the absurdity of the absurd.”
“We are doing everything so that all countries can be present,” added ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, explaining that one of the proposals is to secure at least 15 rooms for delegations from “lower relative development” countries and “small islands”, plus at least ten rooms for nations that have “more ways to try to get rooms in the market.”
“Unfortunately, the price of bedrooms in Belém remains completely disproportionate to any COP. This, really, has not made it easier [a organização do evento]. And we have to remember that it is not only delegates -without which there is no COP -but also civil society, the academy, the private sector and the press. There are still a lot of people in need of rooms, ”admitted Lago.
