During the dinner of some of the main negotiators and diplomats of the (United Nations) climate conference, the NGO Greenpeace made a series of projections to demand measures to eliminate forestry, in the early evening of this Sunday (12).
The action took place in front of the TV Tower, in Brasília (DF), during the reception of authorities who arrived in the city for the pre-COP, an event that takes place a month before the main summit and which serves as preliminary meetings for formal negotiations.
According to the organizers of the event, more than 70 delegations (out of almost 200) will be in the Brazilian capital for the talks, which will take place on Monday (13) and Tuesday (14).
COP30 will be in , the capital of Pará, between November 10th and 21st this year.
Greenpeace projected, in six different languages, data from a survey carried out by the Opinium institute. According to the study, carried out in 17 countries, 86% of those interviewed argue that protecting forests is essential to combat climate change, and 82% want their respective governments to expand actions to combat deforestation.
The survey interviewed 17 thousand people, according to proportions of age, gender and region, divided equally into 17 nations: Kenya and South Africa, in Africa; Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Canada and the United States, in the Americas; Indonesia, Malaysia and South Korea, in Asia; Australia, in Oceania; and Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom, in Europe.
“Governments need to listen to their populations and act in accordance with their moral, legal and political responsibilities to put an end to deforestation and keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C alive,” says Greenpeace.
The organization demands that all countries comply with the Paris Agreement, with regard to zero deforestation by 2030, and asks that anyone who profits from the destruction of forests stop receiving resources.
In Brazil, the survey states that 93% of respondents want the government to do more to combat this practice (given what was projected during this Sunday’s action), and 80% trust indigenous peoples more to protect nature than other groups or entities.
Under reservation, members of civil society also complain that the pre-COP opened little space for the participation of this sector — Greenpeace itself did not receive any credentials to participate in the formal debates, but prepared parallel programs in Brasília, in addition to the projection.
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