The success of COP 30 based in Belém (PA) will be critical for the future of the planet, and Brazil can serve to mobilize the world to deal with the climate crisis. This is what the former prime minister of Norway, former director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Gro Brundtland.
In a panel of the Gafff Agribusiness event, held on Friday (6) in São Paulo, Brundtland argued that “the success of multilateral events that will take place in the coming months will be critical for our common future”, referring to the BRICS summit in July, and COP 30, in November, in Brazil.
“We share a lonely and fragile planet. Our common future and the future of the next generations is threatened if we persist with political and economic models that fail,” he said. “We need to unite in this common goal to achieve a sustainable future.”
Brundtland was the forerunner of the concept of sustainable development, when he prepared in 1987 the Our Common Future Report (our common future), as chairman of the World UN Environment and Development Commission.
The “Brundtland Report”, as it became known, suggested a strategy that allige development and the environment. The debate on the topic at the UN General Assembly in 1989 was the fighter for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development Conference. ECO 92 would be held in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro.
For Brundtland, the report survived time almost 40 years after it was written. “You can read it today and follow the recommendations and the world and the future will improve. It’s interesting to see that, in fact, for these almost four decades, messages continue to mostly the same.”
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A new problem, however, is the changes caused worldwide over the internet and social networks. These are questions that would have been taken into account at that moment, “How information spreads today, artificial intelligence, everything the internet has allowed.”
“What we have seen in the last five years is that there are countries and politicians wishing misinformation to be used for their own purposes. So, in this sense, the problem of negationism or disinformation sharing has increased as well,” he said.
Bioeconomics and food production
Brundtland states that food systems are the main motivator of loss of diversity. “The way we pack and distribute food accounts for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. The transition to regenerative food production needs to support fishermen, farmers and those whose life depends on these resources,” he said.
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Brazil, in its view, is reopening doors for international investments and financing – behind only China in terms of number of jobs within the renewable energy sector. The economic potential of the Amazon rainforest and sustainable agricultural practices are something much larger than any reforestation practice. Can create a $ 8 billion bioeconomic per year. ”
