Power sector launches plan to cut CO2 in Brazil
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The main companies responsible for producing and distributing electricity in Brazil presented a package of proposals for the country's policy on climate change. The eight points of the document mix intend to use Brazil's potential as a clean energy advantage in international agreements and the determination to avoid cutting emissions will affect economic growth.
It said the guidelines should allow "a new form of low carbon development, safeguarding the development." In the past 15 years, power generation in Brazil was 30% more dirty, according to the Ministry of the Environment
The preparation of the text fit the Forum of Environment Electricity Sector, which brings together 14 entities of the area, as ABCE (Brazilian Association of Dealers Electrical Energy). The idea is that the proposals are considered by the Brazilian delegation at the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December.
"What we want is the maintenance of clean energy matrix of the country, because Brazil is already a low carbon economy," says Silvia Calou, executive director of the ABCE.
Hence one of the most ambitious of the signatories of the document: to assess the contribution of different energy sources for Brazilian products and create a label that indicates the share of renewables in the production chain.
The group also claims to have set in motion a study to determine what proportion of the hydroelectric power plants, despite a reputation for clean, also emit methane, a gas-greenhouse gas 21 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. "There is a cleaning of the trees in the area to be flooded for the plant, which prevents the wood to decompose and produce methane," speculates José Simões Neto, president of the ABCE.
The group also argues that, because of the unpredictability of the weather that global warming is already bringing, Brazil should rethink the policy of building only hydro-of-river (which do not require the flooding of large areas for the construction of reservoirs ).
"We're doing it opposite to the international trend. But in a drought, plants without reservoirs erode the energy matrix," says Calou. For the same reason, he says, is important to get some energy from thermoelectric, considered "dirty."
"We also believe that we must focus on emissions reductions from Brazil in the fall of deforestation, but it must be very careful with the idea of zero deforestation because it could just tie the construction of new hydroelectrics," says Calou.
Source: Folha online
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