The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, said this Tuesday (30th) that there are those in Brazil who have not yet understood the real scope of the possible consequences of ongoing climate change. “There are people who perhaps still don’t have the necessary clarity of what is at stake in Brazil”, said Marina. “We are holding a strategic debate for the world and for the country. We will have to have a lot of mediation capacity, a lot of resilience and persistence. Otherwise, we’ll be locked out. It’s no use imagining that [países] will close the doors to carbon-intensive products [deixando de importá-los]but that we will be able to slide to the other side [negociando com outras nações]. This space will close [globalmente] and we should already be doing our homework”, added the minister. Like other departments in the socio-environmental area, such as the Ministries of Indigenous Peoples and Agrarian Development, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change may lose some of its main attributions if the changes in the structure of the current federal government that the commission the National Congress that analyzes the Provisional Measure (MP) 1.154/23 approved last Wednesday (24). Instituted to analyze the MP 1.154/23 with which the Executive Power defined the federal administrative organization, creating new ministries and redefining competences of others, the mixed commission approved by 15 votes to 3 the proposal of the rapporteur, deputy Isnaldo Bulhões Jr. (MDB-AL). The approved text changes the organization defined by the Lula government, emptying some portfolios of its competences. As a result, the Environment may, for example, no longer be responsible for the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), for basic sanitation systems, solid waste and water resources and even for the National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency (ANA). The text will still be voted on in the plenary sessions of the Chamber and the Senate, which have until this Thursday (1st) to complete the analysis, under the risk of the MP losing its validity, resulting in the automatic resumption of the structure left by the government of Jair Bolsonaro . “President Lula gave a message that we are going to work until the last moment to preserve the attributions of the MMA and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. He said let’s continue with our purpose, with our program [de governo], and that these policies are at the heart of the government”, said Marina, when participating, by video call, in the seminar Retomada Econômica Verde – Learning for the Construction of the Brazilian Agenda, held by Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa, in partnership with Instituto Democracia and Sustainability, with the Why? – Economês in Good Portuguese and with Laboratório Arq.Futuro. Sísyphus Comparing the environmentalist struggle in Brazil to the mythological figure of Sisyphus – the mortal condemned by the Greek gods to, for all eternity, push a boulder to the top of a mountain only to then see it roll down the slope –, Marina said that the country postpones the necessary investments for the transition to a more sustainable economic development model. “There is an effort that the whole world is making. Some are getting more, others less. In the case of Brazil, it is that myth of Sisyphus. You roll a stone to the top of the mountain and then it goes down. The next day, the operation is repeated. This cannot continue to happen in a country that has the best conditions to make this transition. [energética], due to the comparative advantages it has”, added the minister. “It’s good that there are companies from all sectors; academics; social movements; governments and public agents aligned with this agenda.” After ensuring that the strengthening of the National Environmental System — that is, of the entire legal and bureaucratic structure created to protect, improve and recover environmental quality in Brazil — is a directive of the Lula government, Marina highlighted the importance of social participation as a way of ensuring that Brazil migrates to a “green, low-carbon and sustainable” economy.” “It is fundamental now that we choose [sobre] what we want to diverge and [a respeito do] that we want to converge”, highlighted the minister, saying she believes that the presidents of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), and of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), and some of the main business leaders in the country are not among those who they are still not convinced of the risks that the current exploratory model of natural resources represents for all of humanity and of the potential economic and social gains of a change in paradigms. “Efforts to see the problem of climate change and act to mitigate it and [para nos] we adapt [às novas condições] are essential for us to [enxergar a] opportunity, generating [novos] jobs, income and a dignified life for people”, said Marina, maintaining that the investments necessary for the energy transition can generate a “new cycle of prosperity” globally.
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