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Brazil To Continue
Reducing
Deforestation: President Lula
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said
Tuesday that Brazil will continue its effort
to reduce deforestation rate by 70 percent
by 2017, and by 80 percent by 2020.
Lula made the remarks during a one-day
EU-Brazil Summit in Sweden, the country
holding the EU presidency.
But Lula said the goal of zero deforestation
was impossible to achieve in Brazil.
"It is a goal which will demand an
incommensurable effort from the Brazilian
society," Lula said, adding that in 2009,
Brazil would register the lowest
deforestation rate in two decades.
Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the
European Commission, considered Brazil's
deforestation target ambitious, and urged
other countries with tropical forests to
commit to the same effort.
"Brazil adopted a very ambitious plan in
terms of deforestation, which can be an
example to other countries which also have
tropical forests," Barroso said.
Lula and Barroso agreed that countries
should take a more active role in the
protection of the environment and a more
transparent stance on the reduction of their
carbon emissions.
The Brazilian president also stressed the
role of biofuels in the reduction of those
emissions.
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