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Brazil submits climate plan for approaching years

“Brazil is moving away from a denialist model and taking a leading role in the fight against climate change,” VP Alckmin told attendees at the Baku event

Brazil's delegation before the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference of Parties 29 (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Friday pledged to abide by the new carbon reduction target set at the gathering, Agencia Brasil reported. South America's largest country was the second nation to submit a climate plan for the third generation of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which defines the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to be achieved by 2035.

The proposal, which had already been unveiled in Brazil, was officially handed over to UN Executive Secretary for Climate Simon Stiell.

“Brazil is moving away from a denialist model and taking a leading role in the fight against climate change. President [Luiz Inácio] Lula [da Silva] is fully committed to making Brazil an example of leadership,” Brazilian Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin stressed.

The document reiterates climate neutrality as a goal to be met by 2050 and introduces “a vision of a country that recognizes the climate crisis and the urgency of building resilience, and draws up a roadmap for a low-carbon future for its society, its economy, and its ecosystems.”

In addition to providing a summary of public policies designed to make NDC goals possible—like the Ecological Transformation Plan—the text details the efforts being made in the country to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, broken down by sector of the Brazilian economy.

Under the Brazilian NDC, the Sectoral Mitigation Plans, which are being drawn up as part of the National Mitigation Strategy of Brazil’s Climate Plan, are guided by the new target and will establish absolute values for reducing the emission of all greenhouse gases and create targets across all areas of the Brazilian economy. This stage of public policy development is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025.

Stiell spoke on social media of Brazil’s leadership in delivering the plan for NDC 3.0. “The message is clear: Climate action is stepping up because it is every nation’s ticket to security and prosperity.”

Upon submitting the document, Brazil's Environment and Climate Change Minister Marina Silva pointed out that this gesture was made possible because its deadline is more than ten years away. She also explained that Brazil had taken into account the potential changes in economic scenarios, international cooperation, and technological innovations.

“Our focus is on having an absolute figure that goes from more than 2 billion to 850 million tons of carbon dioxide. To back up this decision, we have the Climate Plan, the Ecological Transformation Plan, which is the new paradigm for Brazil's development model,” she went on to say.

The first country to deliver the NDC to the United Nations was the United Arab Emirates.