The elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will propose that the 30th edition of the UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP30), in 2025, be held in the Amazon. “We will talk to the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, and we will ask that the COP of 2025 be held in Brazil, in the Amazon,” he said during his participation in COP27 in Egypt.
“I think it is very important that people who defend the Amazon, who defend the climate, get to know that region up close, so that people can discuss the Amazon from a concrete reality and not just from a culture through reading,” he said. For Lula, both the state of Pará and the state of Amazonas are ready to host the international conference.
At COP27, held in Egypt in November, Lula received a letter of common commitments from the consortium of governors of the nine Brazilian states of the Legal Amazon. During the delivery of the document, it was the governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho, who asked the elected president to present the proposal to hold COP30 in Brazil at the UN summit.
“I make this request on behalf of the Consortium of Governors and the Indigenous Peoples. I ask that you offer the Amazon to host COP30, so that we can bring the planet to debate the Amazon by knowing the Amazon. So that, more than knowing it through social networks, from the distance of books or access to information through networks, they know the Amazon and its people, with their feet on the ground, looking at us face to face, and building with us a living Amazon with sustainability and social justice for the people of the Amazon,” Barbalho said.
Source: Agência Brasil