Plano Clima disregards sustainable actions of agribusiness, says Tirso Meirelles

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) and the federal government continue to make errors in the Climate Plan four days before the start of COP30 in Belém, Pará. This statement is from the president of the Faesp/Senar System, Tirso Meirelles. For him, the document places the responsibility for the national reduction of greenhouse gas emissions solely on the agribusiness sector, compelling the sector to reduce its environmental footprint by 54%, disregarding all the benefits achieved by the sector in recent decades. "[The Plan] does not account for any restructuring process, practically the organizational part of rural properties, environmental conservation, such as direct planting, forest planting, regenerative agriculture and livestock, our APPs [Permanent Preservation Areas], our legal reserves," he enumerates. Meirelles also believes that the federal government blames the agribusiness for deforestation because it lacks the ability to analyze the practice on its vacant ...