2023-06-17 15:15:05
Belém should receive around 50 thousand visitors for COP30
At an event this Saturday (17th) in Belém, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) is expected to announce the first measures related to the process of organizing the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) , in 2025 . The event will be held in the capital of Pará.
Brazil’s candidacy, made official in May, received virtually unanimous support from the other South American countries, a requirement of the United Nations (UN) for the choice, and should be officially confirmed at the end of the year, during COP28, in Dubai . Despite this, the organization process is already underway.
Holding an event the size of a COP will require a “great effort” from the host city and the country. According to the Secretary of Climate, Energy and Environment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), André Corrêa Lago, tens of thousands of people are expected in Belém. “All cities that invite the COP to take place have to make a great effort for the event. It is an event that, in recent years, has an average of 40,000 to 50,000 people during two weeks. It is the biggest conference of the United Nations”, he told journalists during a press conference in Belém.
Most of these presences are members of civil societies in the countries, such as entities, scientists and social movements. As a result, Belém, like other cities that have already hosted the event, needs to organize itself in terms of infrastructure, hotel capacity, restaurants, transport and aviation. “From what I’ve seen, the governor is aware of this, as is President Lula. This event is a very important occasion to ensure that Belém has improvements,” added the Itamaraty Secretary for the Environment. According to him, other cities gained with improvements in traffic and infrastructure.
As it is a UN event that can bring together more than 100 heads of state, there is a strict security protocol, but also the event room, with different size standards according to the importance of the authorities, among other rules.
Amazon countries
The capital of Pará is also preparing to hold, on August 8, the meeting of the eight member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO). Participating are the presidents of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. A document approved at the meeting will be presented during the next United Nations Assembly, in September, in New York (USA).
According to Ambassador Corrêa Lago, the idea of this event is to strengthen ACTO, which is a little-known organization and still little active on the international scene. He believes that a new dynamic for this articulation of countries can “emphasize the possibility of the Amazon being a solution for the world” in terms of climate protection.
more ambitious goals
For the first time held in the Amazon, COP Belém, in 2025, will mark the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the main UN climate convention, signed in 2015 during COP21, in the French capital.
The document established goals for the reduction of gas emissions that cause global warming. According to Lago, there is great international expectation about this future UN meeting in Brazil.
“The Belém COP will be the COP 10 years after Paris. So, it is a COP that will be extremely important, because it is a conference in which the countries are supposed to put forward greater climate ambitions. All countries in the world must present, in Belém, at COP30, in 2025, greater ambitions to combat climate change”, he highlighted.
The last update of Brazil’s goal in the Paris Agreement took place in 2020, five years after the climate treaty was in force. At the time, the government determined that the so-called National Determined Contribution (NDC) will be neutrality in greenhouse gas emissions by 2060.
Neutralizing the emission of greenhouse gases, according to the Paris Agreement, means changing the energy matrix to sustainable sources that do not depend on the burning of fossil fuels and that make the climate not exceed the current average by 1.5 degrees Celsius (aggressive estimate ) or 2.0 degrees Celsius (conservative estimate).
It’s an economic shift, eliminating fossil fuels and other sources of carbon dioxide emissions wherever possible in transportation, power generation and industry. For other sources, for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted, one ton must be compensated with climate protection measures, such as planting trees, for example.
Until then, the National Determined Contribution (NDC), ratified by the Brazilian government, in force since 2015, predicted that by 2025 greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by 37% compared to 2005, the year in which the country emitted approximately 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide. For 2030, the target would be a 43% reduction.
Paris Agreement
In 2015, Brazil joined more than 190 countries that are part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in signing the so-called Paris Agreement.
Under the agreement, which was the result of more than 20 years of negotiation, the nations set long-term goals to limit global temperature warming to levels below two degrees Celsius, if possible to 1.5 degrees, by the end of this century. Based on the commitments of the Paris Agreement, Brazil defined its NDC.
The target considers pre-industrial revolution levels (1750) implemented from 2020 onwards. A significant reduction in global warming and compliance with the commitments of the Paris Agreement are still among the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with which Brazil has also committed itself until 2030.
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