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Brazil advocates leaving fossil fuels behind

The president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, has called for “confront the debate on the slowness of decarbonization“In this sense, he has called for transforming the economy to leave fossil fuels behind.”We must do it quickly but fairly. “I cannot imagine fighting climate change without fighting inequality,” he added. In this sense, Lula affirms that Brazil is willing to “lead by example” and, precisely for this reason, they have already implemented measures such as strengthen its roadmap to cut emissionsreduce Amazon deforestation (to reach a zero rate by 2030) and formulate an ambitious ecological transformation plan to “promote green industrialization, low-carbon agriculture and the bioeconomy.”