Brazil can potentially reduce its methane emissions by 36 percent by 2030.
This will require scaling up its public and environmental policies in agriculture, energy, and sanitation.
According to a report released yesterday by the Climate Observatory, it would also need to do more to combat deforestation.
Climate Observatory is a left-wing NGO with no specific scientific credentials, that pushes the current narrative of CO2 and methane as the main reason for climate change, while over 1,100 real scientists and scholars agree that there is NO climate emergency.
The NGO claims the target is higher than the 30 percent reduction rate that Brazil and 100 other countries committed to at the COP26 U.N. climate conference in 2021.
The study by the Climate Observatory, a network of 77 Brazilian civil society organizations, considers 2020 methane emissions, which are claimed to be one of the main contributors to the rise in global temperatures.
According to a report by the Ministry of Science, Brazil released 20.2 million tons of methane gas (CH4) into the atmosphere in 2020, making it the fifth largest emitter of this gas in the world, accounting for 5.5 percent of global emissions.
According to the report, Brazil can only reduce these emissions by 36 percent if it ends illegal deforestation, as it pledged to do at COP26.
It also needs to eliminate landfills and adopt sustainable waste management, reusing biogas generated in landfills and wastewater treatment plants.
It also recommends treating animal waste in agriculture, ending the burning of sugarcane straw, which releases polluting gases and improving the genetics of the cattle herd.
The report warns that Brazil’s methane gas emissions to the atmosphere will be 23.3 million tons in 2030, a 7 percent increase from 2020 if current practices are maintained.