Leaders from more than 100 countries will gather in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss new commitments to ensure the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping the Earth’s average temperature rise at 1.5°C.
While the President of the United States, Joe Biden, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and several other leaders will be present at least for the opening of the COP26 or the end of the work, the Brazilian president will not attend the conference.
We have been telling the British that,” he told BBC News Brazil one of the members of the Brazilian delegation at COP26.
As evidence of a preliminary result of this “new posture” of the government, data will be shown on the reduction of deforestation in August and September this year compared to last year.
“All the environmental climate indices in Brazil have worsened in the last two and a half years.
Brazil’s main demand will be for rich countries to set clear rules to pay the $100 billion a year promised to developing nations for projects related to curbing climate change.
“We recognize the need for the global emission neutrality target to be reached as soon as possible.
“Brazil will strive to demand financing from developed countries for developing countries.
is going in the opposite direction of the conference,” said Carlos Rittl, a public policy expert at the Rain Forest Foundation, an environmental NGO in Norway.
The expectation is that Brazil defends, during COP26, that old carbon credits produced by the Brazilian industry in the years following the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, in 1997, can be negotiated and reused.
“These credits were generated under a regime and now that regime has changed.
Environmentalists criticize the text of Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contribution , as the document with climate commitments that each country submits to the COP26 is called.
In December 2020, it submitted an updated NDC, including a short-term goal to reduce emissions by 37% by 2025 from 2005 levels and targeting a 43% reduction by 2030, which was previously an intention.
“China, for example, which today is the country that pollutes the most, that emits the most greenhouse gases, said that, from 2030 onwards, it will start a process of reducing emissions.
In the arm wrestling match between rich and developing countries over the level of ambition they should assume, the fear is that negotiations will stall.