RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A group of 106 domestic and foreign companies, as well as 10 sector associations, have joined forces to ask Brazil to play a leading role in climate negotiations. The entrepreneurs also ask the country to assume more ambitious environmental protection goals.
In the letter, companies such as Bradesco, Natura, BRF, Nestlé, Amazon, Ipiranga and Bayer, state that the Brazilian protagonism in the climate issue is a tradition and that a change in this point would bring losses to the country.
The document “Businessmen for the Climate”, released on Monday (27), is an initiative of CEBDS (Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development), supported by several sectorial entities.
In an interview, the council president, Marina Grossi, defined the letter as the “coalition of coalitions” of the private sector for sustainable development.
“This document says that the climate issue is being absorbed by Brazilian companies. Serious Brazilian companies are putting an internal price on carbon, neutralization targets, they are seeking policies where preserving and producing can be allies, such as in the Amazon biome”, she said.
According to her, the signatory companies of the letter present concrete measures that put Brazil in a position to compete and act with protagonism in environmental issues.
The document is also focused on the COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, in November. For Marina, the United Nations (UN) conference will be the most important since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was signed.
“This is the year of actions, of showing what companies and countries are doing. It’s a big race, putting big competitors together. All the big nations are with their development geared towards low-carbon development,” she said.
“What these more than 100 entrepreneurs show is that Brazil has the conditions to reach 2050 with net zero emissions, which is what the Paris Agreement advocates.”