EMISSIONS
Brazil releases its Climate Plan to turn pledges into action
Environment Minister Marina Silva hailed the new Climate Plan as having “the face of Brazil” thanks to its participatory nature. Photo: Rovena Rosa/EBC
Almost three months late for its original COP30 deadline, the Brazilian government released the executive summary of its long-awaited update to the Climate Plan (Plano Clima) at the end of last week, 18 years after the plan’s original 2008 version.
The hope had been to present the document to the world while UN delegates and global leaders gathered in Belém last November, but a tug-of-war between sectors of the Brazilian government meant the Interministerial Committee on Climate Change (CIM) only managed to agree on the plan’s contents on December 15 — and the outcome of that struggle could have far-reaching consequences on the way Brazil pursues its emissions-reduction goals….
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