And old article about government's plans to avoid the climate changes and deforestation

Today i found an old pendrive of mine. I totally forgot i had it.
I plugged it into the old USB port, and i got surprised by what was in there. It's dated as 2008, September 25th, and i don't even know why i saved it. I think it was God's will that i stumble upon it now, exactly 11 years later, check it out:

Goverment's plan includes goal of reducing to zero the forest cover until 2015.
On this date, a balance between deforestation and planting would be reached.
The goal belongs to the Climate Change National Plan.

The ministers Sérgio Rezende (Science and Technology) and Carlos Minc (Environment), and the secretary for Climate Changes and Environmental Quality, Suzana Kahn, presented on this thursday (25) a preview version of the Climate Change National Plan, which aims to reduce the gases emission that cause the Greenhouse Effect.

The plan foresees that Brazil would reach the balance between the deforestation and the planting by the year of 2015, and therefore would no longer lose forest cover. “From this date, Brazil will be planting more than cutting. We'll have both illegal and legal deforestation decreasing, and an increasing tree-planting rate”, said Minc, in Brasília.

Amazon

To the amazonic region, the plan has a series of integrated policies to reduce forest incension and illegal deforestation, control of leeching and replacement of the illegal wood extractivism with management plans. The objectives also include the advance of a practicable agroreform to Amazon, and the implementation of conservation units and indian lands in prioritaries areas as elements of a sustainable development for the region.

According to the Ministery of Environment, the plan assures that Brazil compromise itself for the first time with decreasing deforestation average-rates on all biomes, measurable each 4 years, until reaching zero illegal deforestation, goal to which there isn't, however, a predicted date.

Public Consultation

Before being sent to presidential sanction, the plan stays, since monday, available for 30 days to public consultation. It doesn't determine mandatory goals for greenhouse-effect-gases emission. All measures to be adopted will be voluntaries, for the government and for the productive sector as well.

“Having a goal is easy, the hardest thing is convincing the sectors, having budget. We can always set a bolder goal, but we have to keep real to what we want from each sector. It's like they say: 'we've got to reach an agreement with the Russians', with the sectors which will have to adopt policies to reduce the emissions.”, compaired Minc, according to information from Agencia Brasil.

General Goals

To reduce the emission of greenhouse-effect gases, the plan also lists programs of energetic efficiency, encouragement of renewable-sources energy and a bigger use of biofuel. Among the actions to increase the energetic efficiency, the plan cites incentives to change the refrigerators that are still using CFC.

The plan explains, without further details, that Petrobras (brazilian oil agency, site in english) will avoid the emission of more than 20 million tons of CO2 until 2012, says Agencia Brasil. Another advance that the government expects to reach voluntarily from the productive sector is the replacement of mineral coal with reforested-wood coal in the siderurgic sector.

There's no prediction of the total cost on the implementation of the policies listed on the plan. The origin of the economic resources to its execution should be detailed on the second version.

Originally published on Globo Amazõnia.