President Joe Biden apologized to world leaders at the COP26 summit for actions taken by the Trump administration in pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord
From CNN's Camilo Rocha and Hira Humayun
In the presentation, which followed a speech by Brazil’s Environment Minister Joaquim Leite, the Brazilian delegation announced Brazil’s action plan to reduce illegal deforestation starting in 2022 by 15% every year until 2024 – and then 40% in 2025 and 2026 and 50% in 2027, with a goal to end all illegal deforestation by 2028.
“We are going to continue increasing industrial standards and using technologies that are less intensive in emissions,”The plan also included incentivizing and advancing the manufacture of hybrid and electric vehicles, implementing specific programs to reduce emissions in the agriculture sector, investment in new railroad networks to transport freight and reduce road transport to reduce emissionsAccording to the plan, one railway could bring a roughly 77% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions...
Hours before the presentation of Brazil’s plan, Human Rights Watch said Brazil’s climate commitments and policies “fall far short” of what is needed to address the crisis in the Amazon, the group said in a. The Brazilian delegation arrived in Glasgow with a national action plan “less ambitious than its previous one” and that the government lacked a credible plan to save the Amazon rainforest, the HRW statement said.
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