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11/07/2012
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Macapa (Amapá) - Brazil is the country that reduces deforestation and carbon emissions on the planet. By highlighting the leadership position of the Brazilian government in the goals envisaged in international agreements on climate change, the environment minister, Izabella Teixeira, said the country has not received compensation for these advances.
"Brazil is doing much without the return that could have. The Amazon Fund has only donation today, Norway, Germany and Petrobras, a Brazilian company that allocates resources in the Amazon. Where other donors? We are reducing deforestation. The Brazilian contribution continues, "added the minister, who participated in Macapa the 3rd National Congress of Extractive Populations.
By the numbers the Ministry of Environment (MMA), illegal deforestation in the region fell from 29 square kilometers (km ²) in 2004 - the year in which there was a greater degradation in the region - to 6400 km ² in 2012. This month, the MMA should disclose a further reduction of the degraded area.
The expectation of developing countries and poor nations is that theme again be debated during the 18th United Nations Conference for Climate Change (COP18), while less developed nations expect to proceed with preparation of the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol - which establishes targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases for developed countries. The COP18 begins later this month and runs until early December in Doha, Qatar, with the participation of representatives of 190 countries.
While endorsing the bet, the minister does not believe in a definition of the calculation of carbon emissions and offsets. "Brazil is working while the rich developed countries emit? This will appear in the debate on the second round of commitments of the Kyoto Protocol, but will be set from 2013 to 2015, "he said, referring to the period preceding the new Framework Agreement on Climate Change between the signatory countries UN Convention.
The Brazilian strategies to keep pace emission reduction have been studied by representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the MMA. The definition of climate change policies is also on the agenda of Congress.
Although Brazil commitments set internally, the question needs to have an international regulation, as well as the definition of Redd - acronym that defines Reducing Emissions Generated with Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries. The mechanism, which has been the center of controversy in discussions about climate, act as financial compensation to developing countries or communities of these countries for preserving their forests.
According Izabella Teixeira, the Amazon Fund is the only mechanism for REDD, in practice, the government recognizes. The fund was created in 2008 to raise donations for investments in prevention, monitoring and combating deforestation and the conservation and sustainable use of the Amazon forests.
"What's the point I deploy mechanisms that often then not recognized internationally. I remember that the bill must be paid by developed countries that are not reducing their emissions in that magnitude should, "he said, noting few positive actions as goals set by European Union countries and some U.S. states.
The minister added that the Brazilian government took over the negotiation of an agreement with the United States to establish a second phase of cooperation aimed at monitoring and fire and burned, along the lines of a partnership in the 1990s. "This involves the development of technologies for monitoring fires, training people in forest firefighting and qualification of managers of protected areas in fire management in Brazil," he explained.
The agreement is also being discussed with experts from the University of Brasilia (UNB) and forestry services American and Brazilian.
Source: The Day Online
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