Brazil's Lula Signs Law Cutting CO2 Emissions. AFP, December 29, 2009. "President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a law on December 29 requiring that Brazil cut greenhouse gas emissions by 39% by 2020, meeting a commitment made at the Copenhagen climate change summit... The new law, however, is subject to several decrees setting out responsibilities and regulations for the farming, industrial, energy and environmental sectors... Lula is expected to sign the decrees in January after consulting scientists and other experts, officials said. Despite its ambitious targets, Greenpeace's top representative in Brazil, Sergio Leitao, called it merely a list of good intentions and accused Lula of using double standards in environmental issues... Before signing the new law, in fact, Lula vetoed three of its provisions, including a reference to 'promoting the development of clean energy sources and the gradual phasing out of energy from fossil fuels.'"
2010-01-10
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