Green economy is an opportunity for Brazil to be a protagonist on the international stage
Senator Alessandro Vieira (PSDB-SE) stated that Brazil cannot follow a path of “medieval development” and that, if it knows how to take advantage of the opportunities that the so-called green economy presents, it can gain space on the international scene.
“If Brazil makes the right decisions, we will surely have a very beautiful development trajectory. Pontifying, taking the lead for the potential we have. But, if our option is wrong, unfortunately we will have another wasted window, which is compatible with history Brazilian society of wasting great opportunities for development.”
Helder Barbalho (MDB), governor of Pará, the state that will host the COP 30, in 2025, stated that, if Brazil has environmental responsibility, it will achieve “global leadership”. On the other hand, the president said that the country will be relegated to a peripheral role if it continues “doing more of the same”.
Investment in science and technology will be a key element for the productive sector to know and, therefore, be able to explore the Brazilian biodiversity, which other countries have already understood, according to the governor.
“If you go to any supermarket in the world, you will see cocoa almond chocolate from Pará, açaí from the islands of our state, and you will realize that the world has already identified products that come from our biodiversity and that dialogue directly with preservation and regeneration. is the investment in science, technology, and knowledge. Brazil does not know the richness of its biodiversity. First, because Brazil does not value science. Second, because Brazil thinks that whoever does science has to be poor. Badly pays – when pays – the CNPq grant. We need to turn this page”.
The secretary of Green Economy, Decarbonization and Bioindustry of the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (MDIC), Rodrigo Rollemberg, said that the green economy is “an agenda that can unite Brazil”.
The secretary said that it is necessary to strengthen the science and technology institutes located in the Amazon and articulate them with the productive sector to guarantee that knowledge is transformed into new businesses. “It is a huge opportunity for Brazil to develop, to promote neo-industrialization, based on the energy transition.”
Rollemberg cited as an example the “revolution that occurred in the ethanol chain”. “Initially it was the sugar industry; then, sugar and alcohol; now, the cogeneration of electricity; the production of biogas; and an infinity of products through technologies.”
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Partner-president of Systemiq in Brazil, Patricia Ellen, former Secretary of Economic Development, Science and Technology of the State of São Paulo, pointed out that there is no contradiction between economic development and sustainability.
“Brazil has never ceased to be the country of ‘pibinho’ and we are still increasing deforestation and inequalities. Our only path is to start a model with solutions based on nature. We are the only large country in the world with conditions to be zero carbon from by 2030 and, with that, add 150 billion dollars a year to our economy, keeping the forest standing, accelerating the transition to an even more sustainable agro, decarbonizing our industry and investing in bioeconomy”.
Ibiapaba Netto, executive director of CitrusBR, said that Brazil needs to respect global concerns with sustainable development, but that it is the country’s responsibility to “make itself understood”.
“We may have to choose between being accepted and being understood. And, in that sense, I think being understood is better. That they understand that Brazil has a hardworking people, in good faith and that it has an extremely clean production system. We cannot accept being placed in the condition of a pariah in the world, because if we arrived here with an Amazon Forest with 84% preserved and 66% of the Brazilian biome preserved, something these people who live here did right.”
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