President Jair Bolsonaro (no party) defended this Saturday (13) Brazil’s performance at COP26, a climate conference taking place in Glasgow, Scotland.
“We did our best, we have a good Minister of the Environment [Joaquim Leite], we have now made an agreement on methane, which is the ox’s fart, and on the decomposition of organic matter as well. And we are increasingly collaborating,” declared Bolsonaro, in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), where he began a six-day trip across the Middle East.
Brazil was criticized during the climate conference for its timid targets for reducing greenhouse gases, and for the fact that Bolsonaro himself did not attend the event in person.
In addition, this week it was announced that Brazil registered a record in deforestation rates for the month of October since the beginning of the current historical series, in 2015. For Bolsonaro, however, Brazil is unfairly attacked in the environmental area.
“But [na COP] it’s a place where almost everyone presents their problems for others to solve. We are the ones that contribute the most to the non-emission of greenhouse gases, and sometimes we pay the bill the most, but we are attacked the most,” declared the president.
For him, the reason for the attacks is the commercial issue, linked to the fact that Brazil is an agricultural power.
“At the COP, everyone has the solution to the problem by pointing the finger at others. We are examples, there are countries that don’t even know what riparian forests are and keep putting pressure on us. But since then nothing has come, there’s pressure on the Brazil. It’s because we compete all over the world in agricultural products,” he declared.
According to him, “between countries there is no friendship, there is interest”.
Bolsonaro also disdained the threat of some rich countries to stop buying Brazilian products that are contributing to deforestation. “Are you going to boycott? Are you going to buy from the Moon, from Mars, from Saturn?” he declared.
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