The year 2024 puts Brazil once again in front of its future, no longer with speeches and studies that show that we are the country of the future. The task now is to put intentions on paper, in order to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the energy transition to position Brazil as a global player in the field of biofuels and renewable energies, as well as technologies that add value to a myriad of products. The state exports them like goods. The proposal for re-industrialization, or new industrialization, must advance in order to lift Brazilian industry out of the stagnation and loss of participation from which it has suffered for many years. It is necessary that the phrase “Brazil, the country of the future,” coined by the Austrian Jewish writer Stefan Zweig, who immigrated to Brazil in the 1940s to escape Nazism in Europe, stop occupying the nation’s imagination and actually become one of the greatest countries. Gift savings.
Brazilian industry has been experiencing a process of losing participation in the economy for years. If after Zweig’s statement Brazil had witnessed an active industrialization process, it did not strengthen this position in the years of crisis and high inflation that followed and specialized in assembling cars, without having a Brazilian brand, and exporting primary goods, since aircraft production is practically our only case of vertical industry with… Advanced technology in the country. Now, faced with the challenge of renewing the Brazilian industrial area, it is necessary to move away from specific solutions to meet specific interests and think about the economy as a whole, in a planned way and making optimal use of scarce public resources to promote the country’s development.
It is imperative that the proposal to regulate the market for carbon credits, as well as the regulations surrounding the decree governing the National Climate Change Policy Act, do not remain hostage to the interests of groups with the power to fill seats in Congress. This was the case for the vote on the bill regulating marine photovoltaic generation, which was approved in the Assembly and which will be considered again in the Senate, where it began. The proposal aims to set standards for offshore wind generation, and has even included the generation of coal-fired thermal and wind power plants in the south of the country, burdening energy bills by R$25 billion annually, a total that would reach R$658. Billion by 2050, according to calculations by PSR, a consultancy for the Just Energy Transition Movement, which brings together eight business entities representing energy consumers.
Proposals that favor some groups at the expense of others do not meet the need of Brazilian industry to join global supply chains, because they distort production costs and undermine the productivity of sectors of the economy, even those favored, which, without realizing it, or cover up inefficiency through advantages. tax or other temporary devices. Congress and the government must be in harmony so as not to distort the structural changes the country needs. It is necessary to resume planning effectively so that the Brazilian economy has direction and is not affected only by the weight of industry, agriculture and services.
Agribusiness and mining, two of the sectors with the greatest impact on the environment, presented ambitious plans at COP28 in Dubai. Institutional support and active intent from business will be needed for projects to get off the ground, with effective reductions in deforestation through land use. degradation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But agribusiness and mining companies reinforce the need for an integrated strategy to bring Brazil into the climate transition agenda. It is now time for Brazil to move actively towards delivering effective results at the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties, scheduled for November 2025, in Belém, Pará.
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