The assembly of a task force on the climate is the government’s priority for the 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP30), Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, president of COP30, said on Tuesday (28). After a meeting with Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, he said the task force will involve several ministries and the Central Bank and defended the bureaucracy of funds to accelerate investments in facing climate change.
The task force, explained from the lake, will work along the lines in the Brazilian presidency in the G20 (group of the 19 largest economies on the planet, the plus European Union and African Union). Over the past year, when Brazil led the group, the G20-themed areas had their task forces involving several related ministries. According to the diplomat, the joint work of various ministries is essential to address climate change and bring the climate to the center of economic and social development.
“We realized how much the most pessimistic predictions regarding the arrival of the impacts of climate change were confirmed. I think that, with this sense of urgency and above all with this sense of opportunity, I would make a major change in the world economy with current technologies and current instruments, ”said do Lago.
Financing
Regarding financing for climate actions, the president of COP30 stated that the focus is not on the creation of funds, but in the strengthening of existing resources and the bureaucracy of the system, to accelerate the release of resources. He criticized the delay in project analysis and approval and defended the proactivity and innovation of these funds.
“We need to strengthen what exists, but also to think, considering that everything is happening long before what we predicted, that we have to accelerate. For example, you have a project in one of these funds [para o] Climate that takes a long time to approve and developed, so we have to make the system work more in favor of urgency, ”he said.
Works
Scheduled in November, in Belém (PA) COP30 will require a series of improvements in the city to support the flow of guests. About the works and the accommodation, the ambassador explained that the matter is under the responsibility of the Civil House, but said he visited the capital of Pará last week, accompanied by United Nations techniciansand was impressed with progress. “The United Nations team was also very quiet after the visit,” he said.
On Tuesday, a delegation from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) visited the works funded by the financial institution in Belém. For the conduct of COP30, the Pará government performs about 30 works of urban infrastructure, mobility and sanitation in the metropolitan region from the capital of Pará. Estimated at R $ 4 billion, the works are funded by BNDES, an agreement with the Itaipu Plant and the Government of Pará.
