{"id":49226,"date":"2023-09-18T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=49226"},"modified":"2023-09-19T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T12:06:08","slug":"lula-scraps-bolsonaros-cuts-to-brazilian-climate-target-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/18\/lula-scraps-bolsonaros-cuts-to-brazilian-climate-target-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lula scraps Bolsonaro&#8217;s cuts to Brazilian climate target ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Brazilian government has agreed to cancel former president Jair Bolsonaro&#8217;s cuts to its climate ambition and to work on a new improved climate target.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The moves were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.br\/mma\/pt-br\/comite-interministerial-sobre-mudanca-do-clima-aprova-cinco-resolucoes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed<\/a>\u00a0by a group of government ministers at the Interministerial Committee on Climate Change last week.<\/p>\n<p>The government will change Brazil&#8217;s climate plan, resuming the level of ambition presented in 2015 &#8220;in terms of absolute values \u200b\u200bof greenhouse gas emissions&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n<p>President Lula Da Silva is expected to officially announce this at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/15\/eu-uses-pollution-tax-funds-to-back-romanian-gas-pipeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EU uses<\/strong> pollution tax funds to back Romanian gas pipeline<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Izabella Teixeira, Brazil&#8217;s former environment minister and Lula advisor, welcomed the decision saying &#8220;Brazil finally recognises the mistakes made by the previous government&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have again a baseline pointing in the right direction from whom to discuss the future,&#8221; she told Climate Home News. &#8220;Brazil has the ambition to do more in the future. It can move from green-wishing to green-doing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Claudio Angelo from the Observatorio Do Clima says it is an important first step, but bolder commitments are needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are finally burying Bolsonaro&#8217;s toxic climate governance legacy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But this is nowhere near the ambition we need to show in a country whose president says he wants to lead on climate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Bolsonaro&#8217;s cuts<\/h3>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/sites\/default\/files\/NDC\/2022-06\/Brazil%20First%20NDC%20%28Updated%20submission%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first UN climate plan in 2015<\/a>, the Brazilian government led by Lula ally Dilma Rousseff pledged to cut emissions by 37% between 2005 and 2025 and by 43% by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Under UN rules, governments are supposed to progressively increase their ambition but the Bolsonaro administration twice used accounting tricks to weaken its climate goals.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 it <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/sites\/default\/files\/NDC\/2022-06\/Brazil%20First%20NDC%20%28Updated%20submission%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reiterated<\/a> the same targets but tweaked the baseline emission data, allowing for more emission than the previous version in absolute terms.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46271\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46271\" class=\"wp-image-46271 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/climatechangenews.com\/files\/2022\/04\/Brazil-NDC.jpg\" alt=\"Lula scraps Bolsonaro's cuts to Brazilian climate target ambition\" width=\"600\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2022\/04\/13152855\/Brazil-NDC.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2022\/04\/13152855\/Brazil-NDC-211x168.jpg 211w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2022\/04\/13152855\/Brazil-NDC-423x337.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Brazilian climate target in 2015 was more ambitious than its 2020 or 2022 ones. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oc.eco.br\/en\/brasil-segue-violando-acordo-de-paris-com-nova-meta-do-clima\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Observat\u00f3rio do Clima<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following pressure from civil society and the international community, the government made a <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/sites\/default\/files\/NDC\/2022-06\/Updated%20-%20First%20NDC%20-%20%20FINAL%20-%20PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new update<\/a> in 2022, raising the 2050 target to 50%.<\/p>\n<p>But the proposal still permitted the emission of 70 MtCO2e more than what was first proposed in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Ana Toni, national secretary for climate change at environment ministry, said the return to stricter targets is &#8220;very important symbolically because it helps to end the evil things that the Bolsonaro government did&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>More ambition needed<\/h3>\n<p>Toni added that the government will now get to work on a new climate plan, which &#8220;will logically be more ambitious than that&#8221;. But she did not announce a timeline for its development.<\/p>\n<p>The government has set up two working groups on the new plan &#8211; one for emissions-cutting and one for adapting to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Subgroups will be cretaed to draw up eight emissions-cutting plans for different sectors and 14 adaptation plans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/14\/overshoot-commission-calls-for-research-into-solar-geoengineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Overshoot Commission<\/strong> calls for research into solar geoengineering<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Observatorio Do Clima&#8217;s Angelo does not expect the new plan to be released before Cop30, which Brazil will host in the Amazonian city of Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>\n<h3>Halting deforestation<\/h3>\n<p>Brazil is the world&#8217;s seventh-largest carbon dioxide emitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatewatchdata.org\/countries\/BRA?end_year=2020&amp;start_year=1990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Climate Watch, much of it driven by the clearing of trees in the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>Deforestation <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-01-brazilian-amazon-deforestation-bolsonaro-month.html#:~:text=Under%20Bolsonaro%2C%20an%20agribusiness%20ally,percent%20from%20the%20previous%20decade.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reached<\/a> record levels under the government of Bolsonaro, who slashed environmental protection programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming back into office, Lula promised to reverse that trend and combat deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>His efforts are achieving some initial results: tree loss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.br\/mma\/pt-br\/noticias\/data-from-inpe-show-a-48-reduction-in-amazon-deforestation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has fallen<\/a>\u00a0 by nearly a half between January and August, compared to the same period of 2022.<\/p>\n<p><em>The article was amended on 18\/9 after publication to add a comment from Izabella Teixeira and on 19\/9 to say that Lula is expected to announce the policy on Tuesday, rather than Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil will go back to the climate targets it drew up in 2015 while it works on new and improved ones","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":49030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1483],"tags":[230],"coauthors":[4974],"class_list":["post-49226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america","category-un-climate-talks","tag-brazil","type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lula scraps Bolsonaro&#039;s cuts to Brazilian climate target ambition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Brazil will 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