“Many talk about fossil fuel and few demand from Petrobras a policy of renewable energy”, said senator Simone Tebet (MDB-MS), pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic. “We are going to subsidize clean energy in Brazil,” she proposed.
The pre-candidate was the first to speak this Wednesday morning (29) at a meeting of the CNI (National Confederation of Industry) with presidential candidates, which in the afternoon should receive President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The pre-candidate Ciro Gomes (PDT) participates through the internet.
Tebet waved to the CNI’s proposals and defended the flexibilization of environmental licensing. “We need to have the courage to say which are risky activities and which are not. Less discretion when the inspector applies a fine, not having so much legal uncertainty”, she said.
Questioned by Sheet on the deregulation of environmental norms in the current government, Tebet defended that they return to force. “I come from agriculture, but I took a master’s degree in environmental urbanism,” she said.
“We will be revoking all decrees or normative acts that represent environmental setbacks,” he said. “It’s not to punish agro that is sustainable, but we have to be strict with those few who denigrate the image of agro.”
For Tebet, “we are not an international pariah”. “The productive sector is concerned, yes, whether on the issue of renewable energy or the circular economy. [Temos que] show the difference between half a dozen illegal land grabbers and deforesters and the big agribusiness that does its homework”, she also maintained in her opening speech.
“[Vamos] place Brazil at the center of world geopolitics. Because we have what the world doesn’t have: the Amazon rainforest,” he said, citing that international private funds of more than US$ 40 trillion require two conditions to invest in a country: a green economy and institutional stability.
The pre-candidate defended that the country must eliminate illegal deforestation and comply with the Paris Agreement on climate change, transitioning to a low carbon economy. She also waved at the CNI’s proposal to regulate the carbon market.
Questioned by the president of Fiero (Federation of Industries of the State of Rondônia), Marcelo Thomé, about his proposals for renewable energy sources, Tebet defended a national energy transition plan based on biomass, solar and wind sources.
“Today we have energy insecurity, having the possibility of diversifying. The agroindustry may have subsidies for biomass,” he said. “We now have some of the cleanest energy in the world, but it’s still expensive, and it’s still not safe enough, depending on our rains and droughts.”
The Planeta em Transe project is supported by the Open Society Foundations.
