Brazil raises target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions

Sao Paulo: Brazil plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions more dramatically than had been planned, the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has annou...

Sao Paulo: Brazil plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions more dramatically than had been planned, the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced.

Instead of the earlier target of reducing emissions by 59 percent from 2005 levels by 2035, it will aim for a 67 percent reduction, the left-leaning government said Friday.

The shift is intended to align Brazil's emissions goal -- called its "Nationally Determined Contribution," or NDC -- with the terms of the Paris Accord of 2016, said an official note published late Friday.

Signatories to the Paris Accord have until February to announce their new emission goals, but Brazil will present its new NDC target at the UN's upcoming COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan beginning November 11.

Brazil will host the following climate conference, COP30, next November in the Amazonian city of Belem.