Brazil will take consistent proposal to Climate Change Conference
Environment Minister, Izabella Teixeira, has held additional consultations with important civil society agents 
According to Adriano Santiago, director of the Department of Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment (MMA), Brazil keeps the deadline by October 1 to properly prepare and present figures which are fairly consistent to the proposal of reducing greenhouse gases to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21).
The date was set as deadline by the countries that take part in the conference, although there was a call to those that were able to forward their reports until the end of the first quarter of the year. The conference will take place in Paris, , from November 30 to December 11, 2015.
Santiago pointed out that at the Warsaw Conference in 2013, the Brazilian government suggested the national contributions were also open to public consultation. Last year under the coordination of the Foreign Ministry, several electronic and face consultations have resulted in the writing of a report in April this year, publicly available on the Foreign Ministry page.
Upon request of President Dilma Rousseff, the Environment Minister, Izabella Teixeira, has held additional consultations with important civil society agents – scholars, representatives of private companies and other ministries.
Santiago pointed out that the President's request is to have an ambitious and fair project, that may protect national interests – social and economic interests – create jobs and bring technological development.
According to the director, the recognition of the effort that Brazil has devoted in the field of climate change area, especially by reducing deforestation in the Amazon is also intended. He noted that by decreasing deforestation, the country has reduced about 41% of greenhouse gases emissions from 2005 and 2012. The reduction meant a decrease of about 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emission to 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the period. “There was not in the world, a country that has made such reduction. In the US, the reduction has reached 10%,” he mentioned.
Translated by Amarílis Anchieta
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