Agência Brasil
Brasília – On Friday (10), in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Brazil will submit an inventory on greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbonic acid gas, during the period 1994-98.
Brazil will also report on the measures it has adopted since adhering to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The document will be presented during the 10th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Climate Change. The conference began yesterday (6) and goes through December 17. Although Brazil is not among the major polluters, the country is obliged to submit a regular report, the content of which will only become public during the conference.
The purpose of the encounter is to assess the impact of the ten years since the Convention went into effect, in 1994, with the adherence of the fiftieth country. At present 180 countries have ratified the Convention.
As a developing country, Brazil is not obliged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to the treaty, that is the responsibility of the developed countries that ratified the Convention, since they are bigger polluters than the developing countries.
Brazil played an important role in the negotiations to implement the treaty. It was a Brazilian team, for example, that presented the proposal for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), in Milan, in 2003. The CDM includes projects for the removal of carbonic acid gas that has already built up in the atmosphere and thus promises to reduce global warming.
The Ministers of Science and Technology, Eduardo Campos, and Environment, Marina Silva, plan to attend the conference.
