Government and business want to overthrow the rule of IBAMA on compensation for thermal
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Brasília - Representatives of nine ministries presented a letter to the Civil asking the repeal of a legislative investigation of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) making the construction of new coal-fired power plants and oil to offset emissions carbon plants in reforestation and renewable energy investments.
According to the executive secretary of the Interministerial Commission on Global Climate Change, José Domingos Miguez, only the Ministry of Environment did not sign the letter. The President's Office also includes the commission, but was addressed to the document.
The repeal of the measure is also supported by the electricity sector entrepreneurs who complain of unequal treatment for the energy sector and argue that the compensation made it impossible to build new thermal power plants.
According Miguez, IBAMA can not legislate on emissions of greenhouse gases. The competence should be the inter-ministerial committee, created in 1999 by a presidential decree. Moreover, according to the secretary's proposal to IBAMA offset emissions with forestry is misguided and does not guarantee the reduction of concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
"The idea of planting forest has no support in terms of mitigation: forest can catch fire, can be cleared. That is, IBAMA does not understand the problem and also creates risk of a blackout, "he says. "In addition to football coach and economist now thinks all Brazilians who specializes in climate change," the secretary snapped.
The director of sustainable energy holding company EDP, Pedro year project, says that the rule of IBAMA "is impossible" because it increases costs and does not consider variables such as the requirement to tender for the purchase of renewable energy market, making it difficult to comply one of the constraints. "Companies have nothing against new rules, have rules against impossible. The matter was even discussed with the productive sector, "he said today (25) in an event promoted by the electricity sector.
Representative of the MMA at the meeting, the director of the Department of Climate Change, White American, acknowledged that the environmental area has been the target of complaints and pressure against the normative and said changes to the text being discussed with the Ministry of Mines and Energy for "reach a result more reasonable." The National Council on the Environment also examines a resolution that addresses the same subject in a more mild.
According Miguez, the Interministerial Committee, the standard of IBAMA also contradicts the Brazilian position in international negotiations on climate change, since the requirement of compensation for thermal ended up creating a tax on carbon emissions.
"The debate on carbon tax is not internationally established. And the talk is that if such a mechanism, it has to be fiscally neutral, ie, we must kill some other tax. In this case [of education IBAMA] do not speak in tribute to withdraw, "he said.
Source: Agência Brazil
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