- Brazil pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 300,000 million metric tons per year by 2030, making it the first major ‘developing country’ to commit to an absolute reduction in carbon emissions.
- In an announcement at the U.N. in New York on Sunday, President Dilma Rousseff committed to a 37 percent reduction from 2005 by 2025 and an ‘intended reduction” of 43 percent by 2030.
- Brazil has already achieved massive emissions savings by curbing deforestation in the Amazon over the past decade.
Brazil pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 300 million metric tons per year by 2030, making it the first major ‘developing country’ to commit to an absolute reduction in carbon emissions, reports The Guardian.
In an announcement at the U.N. in New York on Sunday, President Dilma Rousseff committed to a 37 percent reduction from 2005 by 2025 and an ‘intended reduction” of 43 percent by 2030. Those targets translate to 1.5 billion tons in 2025 and 1.3 billion tons by 2030, down from the current level of 1.6 billion tons, according to estimates by World Resources Institute (WRI).
Brazil has already achieved massive emissions savings by curbing deforestation in the Amazon over the past decade. According to a study published last year in the journal Science, the drop in forest clearing avoided 3.2 billion tons of CO2 emissions between 2003 and 2013, or 320 million tons per year.
Other developing countries like India and Indonesia have committed to reductions in emissions relative to a projected baseline, rather than an absolute cut in emissions.
