Fighting climate change in Brazil means reducing deforestation and conserving the forest. And for expanding the use of renewable energy and rethinking the transport sector.
This is stated by Mercedes Bustamante, president of Capes (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) and one of the reviewers of the summary report of the AR6 (Sixth Assessment Report) of the UN Climate Science Panel (IPCC), released this Monday. (twenty).
For Bustamante, the country needs to think about climate adaptation solutions that alleviate disasters like the one in São Sebastião (SP). “Maybe we don’t even need the IPCC charts anymore, just the newspaper headlines to see what’s going on.” The report describes such extreme events.
In response to them, Bustamante says, he cites the use of fossil fuels. “We have more financial incentives for the fossil fuel industry than for climate change adaptation actions. Not only are we not devoting resources to solutions, we are investing in the problem.”
Translated by AZAHARA MARTIN ORTEGA
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