Alceu Moreira (MDB-RS) calls the Minister of the Environment “Gray Marina” and says she is the country’s opponent
The president of FPBio (Parliamentary Front of Biodiesel), deputy (MDB-RS), said on Thursday (21.ago.2025) that the minister (environment and climate change, whom he called “Marina Gray”works to disturb the Brazilian agribusiness.
“While we are showing the US that we are absolutely clean from the production process, that we are Green Seal, Dona Marina Gray can make a document to say that we are the producers who polluted the world. A federal government signature document opposing everything we are responding in the US document,” said Moreira, in speech at the seminar “Protein Chain: fuel and food for the world 2025”.
The deputy also said that the minister fills the role that international opponents should occupy when putting “Banana Casas” For Brazil to slip.
“We don’t even need an international opponent. It’s for free in front of us, just putting these banana peels. Of course, this process is a strategic intelligence from the outside, which puts us the productive obstacle for the competitive need,”, declared.
The speech is at the moment when the climate plan is discussed, launched by the federal government in 2023 and currently in the consolidation phase. Provides emission reduction goals for all sectors of the economy. Cites agriculture as responsible for 70% of these emissions.
For Moreira, when other countries act to protect their markets and prevent the Brazilian product from reaching their stores for “Be unable to compete with Brazil”, The movement is understandable, but not internal criticism.
“If we sell 1 kg of Brazilian meat in Northern Ireland, the next day they have to kill all cows, because the cost of production is almost 20% larger than ours. They will say that we are burning the forest, that using poison, that we have production problems, that our product is not. declared.
Climate Plane
The plan establishes a target of 36% of agriculture emissions up to 2030 and 54% by 2035, considering not only direct production emissions, but also those resulting from illegal deforestation.
The document limits the expansion of productive areas and imposes additional requirements of environmental monitoring.
There is disagreement on how emissions are accounted for. Agribusiness states that the plan mixes illegal activities-as deforestation in public lands and conservation units-with legitimate productive practices, and does not properly consider carbon capture in rural properties, legal reserves and systems such as no-tillage and ILPF (crop-livestock-forest integration)
In a statement, the Ministry of the Environment stated that the climate plan was built in a “cross” way, with the participation of 25 ministries, since 2023 and that “All projections and goals are based on the methodologies of national inventory, the responsibility of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.”
“These methodologies include carbon capture in agricultural practices, such as pasture recovery and integrated systems, but cautiously, prioritizing data available on a national scale. The federal government works, in partnership with Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Company) and experts, to improve the accounting of this information, considering also the contribution of the sector to the removal of carbon through maintenance and recovery actions and recovery actions. of native vegetation ”said the agency.
