Brazil To Continue Efforts On Combating
Global Warming
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's Environment
Minister Carlos Minc said on Monday that his
country will keep on working to minimize the
effects of global warming and demanding more
aggressive stances of rich countries on the
issue.
Stressing that Brazil's participation in the
UN Climate Change Conference last week in
Copenhagen was much praised, Minc said "It
is not because selfishness and folly
prevailed there that we will not do our
homework. We will keep on working."
Among the measures to be taken by the
Brazilian government is the implementation
of the Savanna Fund, an initiative to
protect the country's savanna ecosystem,
said the minister, without elaborating on
the details of the fund.
Additionally, Brazil will increase
cooperation with neighboring countries in
order to protect the Amazon rainforest, and
also help African countries fight
desertification, he said.
Earlier in the day, Brazilian President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva criticized the United
States for doing too little for the planet,
and reminded that developed countries are
the greatest polluters in the world.
Lula urged all countries to work together in
order to reach an agreement that allows real
progress in minimizing the effects of
climate change, expressing his hope that
such an agreement may be reached in the next
climate conference to be held in Mexico in
2010.
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