Silva, who could repeat as Environment Minister, a position she already held with Lula between 2003 and 2008, insisted on the need to create a national superorgan who coordinates the climate action between various ministries.
“It is something innovative and powerful,” declared the former minister.
Alert for climate change
Marina Silva assured that Lula’s visit to Sharm el Sheikh, even before taking office on January 1, sends a powerful message that “Brazil regains environmental leadership in the multilateral space”.
As he maintained, “a strategic priority” It will be the fight against deforestation in the Amazonwhich under the government of Jair Bolsonaro it advanced strongly since 2019 and in 2021 reached a maximum in 15 years, due to its policy of promoting mining and agricultural activities even in protected areas.
In this task to preserve the largest green lung on the planet and a fundamental CO2 sink capable of combat climate changeSilva assured that Brazil will act “with its own efforts”, without conditioning it to international aid.
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international commitment
Silva congratulated himself despite the fact that norway and germany have announced, after Lula’s victory, to be willing to resume their financial support, after having withdrawn it in 2019 shortly after Bolsonaro came to power. And he anticipated that other additional partners will be sought.
Norway is the largest contributor to that fund, and according to its environment ministry, $641 million is currently available.
Silva explained that international aid can also be useful to promote the so-called bioeconomy.
According to her, one of the clues is to strengthen family farming in the Amazon, not to regress its extension but to increase productivity on already existing farms through more modern technology.
Likewise, Lula’s ally recognized that there is an urgent task to rebuild the budgets for the preservation of the Amazon, cut by the Bolsonaro government, and also the teams specialized in conservation.
“It’s not something difficult, we will have to replace inadequate people, soldiers who don’t know about the environment,” with “technical teams” capable of doing their job and who are “threatened and besieged by the current government,” he added.
Source: Ambito
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