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Dubai, December 1 (EFE). – Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called on governments to clarify and tighten their emissions reduction targets by the 2025 climate summit in Belem, Brazil, warning that the “savannization” of the Amazon could reach “an irreversible point.” to reach.
Speaking at the COP28 leaders’ summit in Dubai, the Brazilian president noted that countries’ nationally determined commitments (NDCs) need to be “bolder” and “more concrete” to stop the surge Temperatures have risen so much that they do not exceed the one and a half degrees warming since the pre-industrial era.
Brazil’s NDC, he stressed, is “much more ambitious” than that of “countries that have polluted the atmosphere since the industrial revolution of the 20th century” and called it “unacceptable” that developed countries have not kept their promise to allocate 100,000 million annually Dollars for climate protection.
That commitment remained “a piece of paper,” he said, while military spending reached $2 trillion in 2021.
Like other leaders in the region, Lula defended the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities,” which “is non-negotiable” and “risks that it runs counter to every basic notion of climate justice.”
He stressed that the most vulnerable countries “do not have to choose between fighting climate change and fighting poverty” because “they have to do both.”
Lula said his country has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 48% by 2025 and 53% by 2030 in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
He also highlighted the efforts that his government has made to stop deforestation in the Amazon through measures that in the first ten months of the year managed to reduce it by almost 50%, which represents “the emission of 250 million Tons prevented”. of carbon into the atmosphere.”
However, this region continues to suffer the effects of climate change, he lamented, and is currently experiencing an “unprecedented” drought, with river levels at their lowest level in 120 years.
“I never imagined this would happen in a place where we have the largest freshwater reserves in the world, but the future of the Amazon does not just depend on those who live in the area,” he explained.
Lula claimed that global deforestation was responsible for 10% of global emissions, highlighting the importance of protecting tropical forests, which are sponges that absorb the CO2 emitted by human activities such as burning fossil fuels .
The Brazilian president defended the Amazon, a biome that could lead to an “irreversible savannization process” as the planet continues to warm.
“Even if no more trees are cut down, the Amazon could reach a point of no return unless other countries do what they can,” Lula warned. EFE
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