Two days before Lula's arrival in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to participate in the annual climate summit (COP27), Marina Silva met with journalists and outlined the next government's environmental priorities.
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The former minister insisted on the need to create a national super-body that coordinates climate action between different ministries. “It’s something new, and I would say something powerful,” she declared.
The politician assured that Lula's visit to Sharm el-Sheikh, even before his inauguration on January 1st, sends a powerful message that “Brazil returns to environmental leadership in the multilateral space”.
Second Marina Silva, a strategic priority of the new government will be the fight against deforestation in Amazon. In this challenge of preserving the largest tropical forest on the planet and a fundamental sink for CO2 – one of the main gases that cause climate change – she guaranteed that Brazil will act with its own resources, without making it conditional on international aid.
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Furthermore, by facing the devastation of the Amazon and pursuing the goal of reforesting 12 million hectares, Brazil will adopt a global leadership role “by example”, he highlighted.
(with AFP)
The United Nations (UN) International Conference on Climate Change – COP27 – began last Sunday (6), in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. COP is the UN's major annual event whose objective is to discuss actions aimed at combating climate change.
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