Brazil to step up its climate goals at COP26, says negotiator

27/10/2021 6:46

        Brazil will step up its Paris Accord targets at COP26 as it tries to recover credibility for its environmental policies and its stewardship of the Amazon
        rainforest, the country's top diplomat for climate talks said in an interview.
        
        "I ask everyone for the benefit of the doubt and to look toward the future and not the past," Paulino de Carvalho Neto, the Foreign Ministry's secretary for multilateral political affairs, told Reuters before heading to the U.N. climate change conference starting in Glasgow on Sunday.
        
        Brazil will formally lodge with the Paris Accord secretariat its commitment to bring forward to 2050 from 2060 its target for carbon neutrality, or net zero gas emissions, he said.
        
        Environment Minister Joaquim Leite, who will head Brazil's delegation, is expected to raise to 45% from 43% the country's target for reducing emissions by 2030, compared to 2005 levels.