From: Cool Earth
The Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has revealed details of what measures the country will pledge to take on climate change when it meets with other nations at the United Nations Climate Change conference in December.
Speaking on the Coffee with the President programme, the president said that Brazil will aim to reduce the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the country by 80 per cent by 2020.Overall, this will reduce Brazil's carbon dioxide emissions by 4.8 billion.
Previously, the president said that the country would aim to reduce emissions by 70 per cent by 2017.
Commenting on the responsibility of certain countries to reduce carbon emissions, the president said that there is a different level of action needed in developing nations and already industrialised countries.
"We have to draw a line between rich countries, which have a had an industrial policy in place for more than 150 years, and the poor ones which only now are beginning to develop," he commented.
The Amazon is the biggest rainforest on the planet and can be found in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Suriname and Guyana.