President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said this Wednesday (16th) that he will propose to the United Nations (UN) that COP30, scheduled to take place in 2025, be held in Brazil, in the Amazon.
Lula’s statement during a parallel event to COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, came in response to a request made by the governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho (MDB) – who spoke on behalf of the Legal Amazon Consortium, composed of the governors of the nine Brazilian Amazon states.
After reading a letter in which the governors proposed an alliance with Lula’s government in defense of the Amazon, Barbalho said that Lula “has leadership and authority to propose to the UN that Brazil be the host of the COP”.
“I would like to make a request to you. In addition to Brazil’s extraordinary gesture of leading the Climate Summit, I would like to ask that you offer the Amazon to host the COP in 2025, the COP30, so that we can take the planet to debate the Amazon by knowing the Amazon”, said the governor paraense.
“Not knowing through social networks, through the distance of books or access to information through networks, but knowing the Amazon and its people with their feet on the ground”, he added.
Upon taking the microphone, Lula agreed with the proposal and said that the governors “can be certain” that it will be forwarded to the UN secretary general, António Guterres, with whom the PT member should still meet on this trip to Egypt.
“In the Amazon, we have two states ready to host any international conference: Amazonas and Pará. Then you will discuss among yourselves who has the most to offer from the point of view of infrastructure to the thousands of people who will go to the state”, said the president-elect.
“I think it’s very important that it be in the Amazon. It is very important that people who defend the climate know firsthand what that region is. So that people can discuss the Amazon from a concrete reality”, he added.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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