Brazil pledges to slash emissions, but will include old reductions

“Brazil is making a substantial effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without nevertheless impairing our development”, she said about her country’s environmental policies. Rousseff’s resignation has been continuously called for by protesters who accuse her government of corruption and nepotism. She asserted that “one must not postpone” the establishment of a Palestinian State that will coexist peacefully with Israel, and said the growth of (Israeli) settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories is unacceptable.

“Although insufficient compared to what would be Brazil’s fair share for keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius until the end of this century, the Brazilian climate target is one of the most ambitious announced so far for the Paris agreement. The country is the first to concretely highlight the inseparable link between global emissions trajectories and future climate impacts in its climate plan”.

They have reduced the Amazon deforestation, which has helped with emissions cuts already, however, staying on the current track, according to The New York Times, the South American country was on their way to 1 gigaton of emissions by the year 2030.

After decades of striping their land of trees in controversial deforestation practices, Brazil has pledged to reduce their carbon emissions, cutting them by 43 percent.

“In a world where goods, capital, information and ideas are freely circulating it is absurd to prevent the free movement of people”, she stressed by emphasizing that Brazil received in the past thousands of Europeans, have open arms today to welcome men and women from all over the world.

Rousseff also said that Brazil will aim to obtain 66% of its electricity from hydropower and 23% from other renewable energy resources such as wind, solar and biomass. President Barack Obama pledged to triple the electricity now generated by non-hydro renewables in the U.S.

During these six years, we adopted a comprehensive set of measures by lowering taxes, expanding credit, strengthening investment and stimulating household consumption, said President Rousseff.

Romeiro, of the WRI, said this argument risks missing an opportunity for emerging markets to gain a competitive edge on sustainable development.

Renewable energy alone would not likely be enough by itself to lift Brazil out of its mounting budget and restore investor faith across the board, but it would be a welcome development nonetheless, Schmidt said.

“Emerging economies have access to new technologies that developed countries didn’t have in the past”, Romero said.