Brazil’s Minister seeks to restore its Climate Credibility as Amazon deforestation falls
The first-ever minister for indigenous peoples from Brazil says that the nation is seeking to restore its Climate Credibility in order to save Amazon from hitting a point where a calamity can take place. Being South America’s largest country, Brazil has a lot of responsibility towards the forests of the Amazon and perhaps it is time to tighten the decisions.
After returning to office in January, leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made sure that the rapid progress of deforestation needed to to stopped. He made significant progress in reversing the trend of cutting down the world’s largest tropical rainforest. After coming to power, Lula made a pledge to put a stop to the accelerating process as the damage to far beyond to fathom. During President Jair Bolsonaro’s four-year term the rate of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon has fallen to its lowest level in six years.
Lula has promised to reduce the number to zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030 in order to restore his country’s environmental reputation. However, the Government is greatly criticized due to its decision to dig up new oil fields near the mouth of the Amazon River.
Brazil’s Sônia Guajajara said “Currently, we are experiencing a moment of reconstruction,” to the media. She also added in her language, “We are rebuilding all the rights of indigenous peoples. It is a challenge because we do need to rebuild the infrastructure that we have,” and the indigenous people are an integral part of it. So, repairing the environmental agency IBAMA and the indigenous affairs agency FUNAI is much needed.
Brazil, a country that is the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, also possesses around 60% of the rain forest that absorbs the whole planet’s Carbon-dioxide and helps in fighting climate change. The country is protecting the Amazon to reduce deforestation and poverty which can help in the climate crisis. Guajajara said, “The entire world now is looking at the Amazon — so this commitment of President Lula to put the Amazon as a priority can obviously increase the funds to halt deforestation and increase protection but also it is a commitment to help reduce destruction.”
The energy ministry of Brazil announced that it will be investing 335 billion Brazilian reals which is nearly $66.5 billion in the oil and gas sector in the coming years which can be a greater cause of deforestation. Evidently, it is creating a contradiction in the nation’s mission to achieve zero deforestation. However, Lula’s chief of staff Rui Costa said, “There is no contradiction, It’s in the name — it is an ecological and energy transition.”
On the other hand, Txai Surui, an indigenous leader and activist from the Brazilian Amazon, said, “For me, this is not morally acceptable”. She further added, “To talk about the Amazon today is to talk about a global issue.” So, decisions should be taken keeping the world in mind and not just the nation. Suring said, “And we still have a long way to go!”
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