Introduction
After the COP30, President Lula tasked four ministries – Environment, Mines and Energy, Finance, and Civil House – to develop guidelines for the construction of Brazil's roadmap beyond fossil fuels. However, five months have passed without any indication of the publication of the national roadmap.
Internal Tensions
Environment Minister João Paulo Capobianco admits that the guidelines have not been released due to internal tensions within the federal government. “We reached 95% understanding to close this phase. There is still a contradiction, a complexity, that makes the discussion still ongoing”.
Contradictions and Challenges
The contradiction, according to Capobianco, involves transition and energy poverty. He mentions regions of the country where fossil fuels are the primary source of energy. “How are we going to make this transition considering that we have to combat this energy poverty? It's a tension between the ministries. How am I going to give up a source of energy or accelerate the reduction of use if I still have to resolve demands that are being placed today? Discussions arise”.
Divergent Positions
The Ministry of Environment (MMA) defends the need for definition of the trajectory and goals in the roadmap. But, according to Capobianco, there are areas of the government that fear assuming objectives and not being able to fulfill them, which would cause the loss of credibility of the plan, in the evaluation of these sectors.
Conclusion
It's curious that the government sectors concerned with the “loss of credibility” of the roadmap do not worry about not even being able to draw up guidelines to initiate the construction of this roadmap. We are talking about initial steps, indications, so that this wheel starts to turn. Or rather, it seems more like an excuse to avoid talking about the end of fossil fuels.
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Source: ClimaInfo