Brazil's newly unveiled strategy encourages ministries of finance, energy, and infrastructure to implement domestic climate measures ahead of the Cop31 summit in Antalya, Turkey. The non-binding document recommends cutting fossil fuel subsidies, expanding renewable energy, and halting methane venting and flaring without enforcing mandatory deadlines. Alongside this energy plan, Brazil issued a companion framework addressing deforestation, noting that global forest protection needs roughly $300 billion annually by 2030 against the roughly $85 billion available today.
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The roadmap establishes that governments can begin phasing out fossil fuels immediately r…: The roadmap establishes that governments can begin phasing out fossil fuels immediately rather than waiting for economic changes or new technology.
Brazil designed the framework without fixed milestones so individual nations can pace tra…: Brazil designed the framework without fixed milestones so individual nations can pace transitions according to their domestic circumstances.
Suggested immediate actions focus on expanding renewable power, eliminating fossil fuel s…: Suggested immediate actions focus on expanding renewable power, eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, and ending methane flaring at extraction sites.
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All countries can start to break their dependence on fossil fuels now without needing to wait for new technologies or economic changes, Brazil’s government has said ahead of a global climate summit.
Brazil, the host of last year’s UN climate conference, set out the world’s first global “roadmap” for phasing out fossil fuels on Tuesday, showing that countries could boost their economies and pull people out of poverty while breaking the link with coal, oil and gas.
But Joeri Rogelj, a professor of climate science and policy at Imperial College London, said that although the Brazilian roadmaps represented a step forward, they were limited. “The roadmaps are valuable but fall short of clearly indicating the pace of change needed by including no timeline or key benchmarks,” he said.
“Because of this omission, they still leave much to be imagined about what is needed to achieve the Paris agreement’s ultimate goal: limiting global warming to well below 2C, and preferably to 1.5C, to avoid dangerous climate harm.”
André Corrêa do Lago, Brazil’s president of the Cop30 summit, said the roadmaps were…
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