The CNA / Senar System participates in the 24The. (COP24), which began on Monday (03) in Katowice, Poland, to show the successful experiences that demonstrate the commitment of the Brazilian agricultural sector to the voluntary goals of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
Representatives from various sectors of the world economy will be meeting for 12 days to discuss progress on the global agreement on climate change, the Paris Accord, which will come into effect from 2020.
The president of the National Commission for the Environment of the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA), Muni Lourenço Silva Júnior, affirms that the rural productive sector must participate in the debates about the goals of the Paris Agreement, since this is an agenda that presupposes the initiative of private initiative and not only of government.
According to Muni Lourenço, the CNA System will have at COP24 a proactive action and with a leading role to match what our rural sector represents for Brazil and the world. “Today, Brazilian food production is fundamental for the food security of 1.2 billion human beings, from a vertical farming and in harmony with environmental sustainability, after all, the country has managed to become an agricultural power based on increase productivity and save native areas. “
According to the leader, the objective will be to show the world the concrete actions of conciliation between agricultural production and environmental sustainability. “In this sense, the System will actively participate in the Brazil Stand, the official space of the country at COP24, showing the results of CNA’s partnership with Embrapa in the six Brazilian biomes aiming at the insertion of trees for the environmental and economic sustainability of rural property and technical guidance on recovery of environmental liabilities, within the framework of the Biomas Project. “
In addition, emphasizes Muni Lourenço, the Senar will be exhibiting excellent projects, such as the results of the Program for Recovery of Degraded Areas of the Amazon PRADAM, the Low Carbon Agriculture Project ABC Closed.
“The Brazilian rural producer has been proving that there is no contradiction or antagonism between producing food and environmental sustainability. Our country reached the level of world agricultural power using just over 30% of its territory, maintaining 66.3% of its native vegetation. It preserves in its rural properties more than 25% of the Brazilian territory, meeting the strictest environmental legislation in the world. The producer knows of its responsibility in the production of food for the Brazilian and world population and in the environmental preservation and has been intensively investing to increase production and productivity without impact to the environment. “
The leader points out that Brazil is achieving the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) targets, a result of the contribution of the rural sector, both in terms of reducing deforestation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “It is vital to show this to the world at COP24 to overcome the misguided narratives that stem from unfounded assumptions and form negative conclusions on the relationship between rural production and the environment in Brazil.”
Muni Lourenço emphasizes that Brazilian rural production has intensified through technologies developed by institutions such as Embrapa, a factor that has added to the strength and talent of the Brazilian rural producer. An important fact is that when compared to the Brazilian grain crop of the year 1972 with that produced in 2016, the area under cultivation increased by 80% and production by more than 500%, which leads us to conclude that to produce the current crop with productivity would require a further 100 million hectares of new areas. Also worthy of note is the expansion of the Integrated System of Plow-Livestock-Forest-ILPF, adopted in more than 11.5 million hectares in Brazil. Brazilian livestock breeding has been technologically advanced in conjunction with the ILPF and allowed, for example, to achieve the voluntary goal of the Paris Agreement before the deadline, the seizure of 35 billion tons of CO2e equivalent.
The leader points out that it is expected that the positions of Brazilian agriculture and sustainability projects coordinated by the System serve as a reference for public opinion and world authorities of the commitment of the rural producer of Brazil with the environment. “In addition, we expect, in particular, that COP24 will provide significant progress in the implementation of the so-called Facilitating Dialogue to support the implementation of the national commitments provided for in the Paris Agreement and that COP24 will result in finalization of the detailed rules on the implementation of the Agreement from Paris.”
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.