Brazilian president announces environment partnership with France
Property owners in Brazil will be on the frontline fighting against global warming, after the South Americans agreed a partnership with France.
The two countries will pursue the goal of reducing their emissions to 50 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy announced the move in Paris, before next month’s United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, which will aim to create a successor to the 1997 Kyoto treaty limiting carbon emissions.
At a news conference, Mr Sarkozy urged other countries to follow the lead set by Brazilian property owners, while also praising the country for being the first to put its proposals on the table.
Last week, President Lula announced that Brazil had made a "significant" 45.7 per cent cut in its deforestation rates in the Amazon from August 2008 to July 2009.
