On the second day of the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), in Belém, the Brazilian government presented the Multilevel Governance Acceleration Plan, to integrate climate actions from municipalities, states, the federal government, with the support of social organizations and the private sector.
According to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, the idea is to have a more integrated approach to policies and seek synergies between the adaptation, mitigation and transformation agendas of urban spaces to face climate change.
“It is not only at the federal level that the country must have a plan to reduce CO2 emissions, but also in the municipalities and states. In this case, it is a commitment that the municipalities also create their Municipal Climate Plans. And in the transformation part, that they make investments to change the geography, the topography built by humans, in ways that now integrate this new normal of what has already been changed so far”, explained the minister.
In practice, the plan was structured around four axes:
- Risk information and decision making.
- Building knowledge and capacity
- Governance and structuring of actions in an inclusive way
- Integration of public and private resources for implementation
According to the Ministry of the Environment, the management model is already underway with the delivery of nine public policies, which cover 15 lines of action structured with the participation of different governments and with the support of social organizations and the private sector.
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According to the Minister of Cities, Jader Filho, the launch of the plan also demonstrates Brazil’s commitment to the Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships for Climate Action (CHAM), of which the country has been a signatory since COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which took place in 2023.
For the minister, it is only possible to advance climate actions with the engagement of subnational governments. “We can, from the central governments, give this indication, give the recommendations, but those who carry out the actions, in fact, are the subnational leaders. They are the ones who will prevent the forest from being devastated, they are the ones who will carry out the implementation process so that our efforts are used on the rivers, they are the ones who will replace our fleets so that they are decarbonized.”
The executive manager of COP30, Ana Toni, recalled that this plan is an example of implementation of the negotiations taking place at COP30.
“This is the time for us to put multilevel governance on the climate agenda in an absolutely structuring way for the reasons that our ministers brought up the issue from the beginning and, mainly because of how we have been thinking about structuring COP30 in the form of a collective effort”.
