Brazil launched this Tuesday (14), on the second and last day of Pre-COP negotiations, in Brasília, an initiative called the “Belém Commitment for Sustainable Fuels” or “Belém 4x”, which aims to join efforts to quadruple the production and use of sustainable fuels by 2035.
The text is being negotiated by Brazil with partner countries, such as India, Italy and Japan, and will be published in the coming days, according to Palácio Itamaraty. The idea is that it can be endorsed during the Climate Summit, on November 6th and 7th, in Belém, when heads of state and government will meet to kick off the COP30 negotiations, which will begin three days later.
The goal of quadrupling the production of sustainable fuels is based on a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) entitled Delivering Sustainable Fuels – Pathways to 2035, published earlier. The document points to alternatives such as hydrogen and derivatives, biofuels, biogases and synthetics to expand the base of use and dissemination of this type of energy.
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“Countries like Brazil have all the conditions to make a contribution beyond themselves, because we have renewable and diversified sources of energy, but it is possible to carry out a joint effort so that we can increase renewable energies in the global energy matrix. They are a key for us to reduce our dependence on the use of fossil fuels”, highlighted the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, when commenting on the initiative led by the government Brazilian.
“And here I think it is extremely important to have the most respected agency specializing in energy saying how important it is to multiply sustainable fuels fourfold”, reinforced the president of COP30, ambassador André Corrêa do Lago.
The goal of quadrupling sustainable fuels is in addition to the goal of tripling the global capacity to produce renewable energy and doubling the energy efficiency rate by 2030, which had been approved at COP28, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2023. It was in this edition that countries adopted, for the first time, a collective decision to “transition away from fossil fuels” and, at the same time, expand drastically promote clean and sustainable sources of energy, prioritizing generation from sources such as solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass and geothermal.
