The PT presidential candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said today (29) that it is necessary to strengthen the United Nations (UN) to combat climate change. “We won’t solve the climate issue if we don’t have a world governance that decides and that everyone has to comply with”, he said, when speaking at a meeting with deputies of the European Parliament, in a hotel in the capital of São Paulo.
According to Lula, in order to increase the strength of the UN’s deliberations, it is necessary to rethink the structure of the organization. “The UN of 2022 cannot continue to be the UN of 1948. The geography of the world has changed, countries have changed. There has been an extraordinary cultural advance. What we need is to renegotiate the UN participants”, he stressed.
The candidate believes that, only in this way, it will be possible to make the decisions taken in the international forum have concrete effects and be put into practice. “If we want to continue discussing the climate issue, deciding in the meetings that we will have at an international level and then each country tries to resolve the matter in its national state, I am sorry, it will not happen”, he said about the current lack of effectiveness of the agreements.
Brazil is, in Lula’s opinion, able to play a leading role in the transition to an economy with low greenhouse gas emissions. “Brazil can be the protagonist of this. Brazil can use the Amazon so that we can extract enough from the riches of biodiversity to support almost 30 million Brazilians who live in that region,” he said.
The development of research that allows the sustainable use of the forest needs to be done, according to Lula, in partnership with other countries. “We need help, partnership, whether from an investment point of view, or from a science and technology point of view, participation in the construction of an effectively clean world, without carbon dioxide emissions”, he added.
The candidate emphasized, however, that Brazil will not give up sovereignty over its own territory. “Here in Brazil, we do not give up the sovereignty of the Amazon. But, it is important to remember that the Amazon is not just ours. We have Amazon in Venezuela, in Colombia, in Peru, in Ecuador, in Bolivia and in the three Guyanas,” he said.
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