RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 10 — Brazil announced details of its new climate change pledge late on Friday night that sets a target to lower the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, which it will present during the United Nations climate summit COP29 in Azerbaijan, according to a government statement.
Brazil is the largest country in Latin America and one of the world’s biggest emitters of climate-warming carbon dioxide.
The UN has said countries must do more if the world is to keep within reach of the Paris Agreement target to limit global temperature rises to 1.5ºC, to avoid catastrophic climate change.
The international body had requested new pledges by February of 2025.
The new target aims to reduce emissions by 59 per cent to 67 per cent by 2035, from 2005 levels. Brazil previously set a target of a 53 per cent reduction by 2030.
“This commitment will allow Brazil to move towards climate neutrality by 2050, the long-term objective of the climate commitment,” said the government in the statement.
The government said its target aligns with the global 1.5ºC goal, but Brazilian lobby group Climate Observatory said it is not ambitious enough to match the global target.
It said, however, that a full analysis of the pledge will only be possible when Brazil’s government makes the formal documentation of the climate pledge — known as a Nationally Determined contribution — available.
— Reuters
