Ahead of the Paris Climate Conference Dilma Rousseff announced about the county's goal to reduce greenhouse gases emissions by 37% till 2025 as compared to 2005 by means of ending of illegal deforestation and promoting of renewable energy development.
In current situation of climate changes and global warming the world community awaits some austerity measures to be taken by the countries, which contribute to these changes the most. While developed countries have been making efforts of GHG emission reduction and promoting of renewable energy sources, developing countries have done little to improve the situation. And now, on reaching some progress in Europe and other world's leading countries, it seems to be high time to deal with the rest of the world. Ahead of the Paris Conference on Climate Change, such countries as China, India, and South Africa were required to reconsider their energy policies and at least to cap the GHG emissions. An International executive director of Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo said, that now far more action is needed as the world has "dragged its feet" for too long.
Brazil ranks the seventh country in the world in terms of the greenhouse gases emissions, and thus considerably contributes to the global warming process. In addition, it possesses enormous rainforest territories, which have been recently destroyed illegally. This fact attaches additional strains to the carbon dioxide issue, as rainforests play an essential role in the process of carbon dioxide neutralization on the global scale.
In this context steps of great importance have been recently taken by Brazil. In June Dilma Rousseff announced about their plans to restore 12 million hectares of deforested territories and, furthermore, to boost the renewable energy share in the country's consumption by 2030. These actions are to be undertaken in the framework of climate partnership program with the United States.
The climate change issue was the key one during the Barak Obama-Dilma Rousseff bilateral meeting. Brazil pledged to increase the total renewable energy consumption to the level of 28-33%. In the electricity sector both parties made a significant commitment, which consists in increasing of their share of renewable energy (except of hydropower) to 20% by 2030. The hydropower in Brazil is to reach 66% of total energy consumption by 2030. The two countries must implement new regulation programs, so that to meet these targets.
All these promises were made to improve the situation with the greenhouse gases emissions, as both countries are world leading air polluters. Dilma Rousseff emphasized: "As our countries are as vast as continents, we have this very important greenhouse gas emission target, and we attach a great deal of efforts to reduce deforestation".
In the late September 2015 Brazil pledged to fulfil another ambitious environmental goal. The country will pursue to reduce their greenhouse gases emissions by 37% by 2025 as compared to 2005, and consequently to lower the indexes by 43% until 2030. This numbers mean, that the Brazilian emissions will be reduced from current 1.6 billion tons per year to 1.5 billion by 2025 and 1.3 billion by 2030 respectively. Dilma Rousseff remarked that their country has one of the largest world's population and still they "set goals just as ambitious, than those set in the developed countries". As the matter of fact, on pledging such ambitious goals, Brazil became the first developing country, which committed to an absolute reduction in greenhouse gases.
Starting from 2005 to 2012 Brazil reduced its carbon emissions by 41%, mainly by means of deforestation preventing and advancing of the land use. But vast emissions from agriculture, inefficient industry and energy production scaled down the achieved success, according to the governmental data. For that reason Brazilian plan on emission reduction is questioned by the executive director of Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo. He wanders, why the plan takes until 2030 to end illegal deforestation. He also calls the current actions of world community to be "out of sync" with what the science is telling to do concerning the climate change issue.
With the Paris Climate Conference coming in December, the United Nations are awaiting more countries to commit to GHG emission reduction. Recently a considerable success was achieved, when China, the largest GHG emitter, promised to cap carbon dioxide emissions, though without specifying any figures.
