Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made an appeal for developed countries to update their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) by November's UN Cop 30 climate summit.
"For those countries that still did not present their NDCs, Cop 30's success depends on it," Lula said at the UN climate summit in New York on Wednesday. "Developed nations need to anticipate their net zero targets and extend access to resources and technology for developing countries."
Brazil is counting on multilateralism, with developed countries collaborating and supporting the global south,to promote a "historic and decisive" climate summit based on action and implementation, not plans and theories. "Frontier walls will not contain drought and storms," Lula said.
More than 50 countries announced and submitted new NDC climate plans during the event.
Lula also criticized what he called climate and multilateralism negligence, an indirect reference to US tariffs and less ambitious climate targets from high-emission countries. He has stressed that Cop 30, in Belem, will be "the real Cop".
Brazil is committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 59-67pc from 2005 levels by 2035 and stop legal and illegal deforestation by 2030.
But the Cop 30 host country's crude oil ambitions raise some concerns about its climate leadership credibility despite its renewable energy and energy transition emphasis.
Alarming additions, lacking ambition
Brazilian climate umbrella group Observatorio do Clima (OC) warns that Brazil's agribusiness sector may undermine national climate plans, [known as Plano Clima](https://direct.argusmedia.com/newsandanalysis/article/2712082), by requiring the addition of forestsin its private lands as part of the GHG mitigation in farmlands.
In public hearings agriculture and livestock market participants said they were unsatisfied with emissions being attributed to their sectors as "disproportional and outside of their responsibility".
OC also pointed out a number of other issues, including: the need for national targets to be clearer for agriculture and livestock sectors; contradictions between Brazil's energy transition and fossil fuels investments; a lack of emissions targets for oceans and coastal zones; and the need for more ambitious net zero targets, such as aiming for a 2045 deadline instead of 2050.
