At
COP-15, minister Minc presents government actions to reduce
CO2 emissions
15/12/2009
- The Brazilian minister of the Environment, Carlos Minc,
presented yesterday (December 14), at the United Nations
Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen (Denmark),
the actions the Brazilian government is taking to reduce
illegal logging and the emissions of greenhouse gases.
Minc
highlighted the drop of deforestation in the Amazon, which
registered, in 2009, the lowest rate of the last 21 years,
as a result of measures carried out by Ibama and by the
Green Arc Operation, which offers sustainable economic alternatives
for municipalities in the region.
The
minister said that 20% of the resources from the Amazon
Fund will be invested in actions to combat and control deforestation
in other Amazonian countries. He also said that Brazil will
support African nations in monitoring the deforestation
in that continent.
Just
before participating in the event of the Brazilian government
in Bella Center, the minister attended the Forum of Governors
of the Amazon, where the seven governors of the region called
for the adoption, by COP-15, of the REDD system (Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), which can
leverage the various sustainable development projects that
encourage the inhabitants of the Amazon to keep the forest
standing.
Minc
said in his speech that the "maturity of the governors
of the Amazon" permitted to reach a level of union
capable of making a collective defense of the proposal for
the adoption of the REDD system. Referring to the debates
that are being held at COP-15, the minister stressed that
"without discussions regarding the forest, there won't
be successful negotiations for the future of the planet".
On
his first day at COP-15, Minc also attended a meeting of
ministers of the participating countries. The group is trying
to reach an agreement in Copenhagen, to replace the Kyoto
Protocol that ends in 2012.
DO MMA
