The document, drafted with the participation of 17 ministries, brings the first time, national voluntary targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions caused by deforestation. The goals of reduction are based on the average of deforestation between 1996 and 2005 that is 19 thousand square kilometers.

In Brazil, deforestation and fires account for 75% of emissions of gases causing the greenhouse effect. According Minc, the establishment of emission reduction targets - which faced resistance in the Brazilian government - has only been possible because the political relationship has changed within the government and the perception of society and other segments on the subject.

"The beauty of having a goal is that each must do his part," said MinC to say that not only the federal government, but the society as a whole has to assume their role, their responsibilities and work to ensure that the goals of the plan are achieved.

The minister also informed that the plan will have annual evaluations. "The plan is not a finished work. We will monitor sector by sector, goal for goal, every year. We can make the necessary adjustments and evaluate our performance," stated during his presentation of the plan to representatives of the Brazilian Forum on Climate Change. The secretary of the MMA Climate Change, Suzana Kahn, also attended the meeting.

According Minc, the plan has also important targets for the reduction associated with ethanol and biofuel that in 15 years, will mean a reduction of 508 million tonnes of CO2. "We want to expand growth to 11% yearly the participation of these fuels in our matrix," said the minister.

Besides the effort to combat deforestation there will be stimulus policies to encourage use of clean energies such as solar, encourage the use of cars emitting less and spend less fuel, to recycling, as well as major targets for reducing the waste of energy.

The increase in the number of trees planted is another important goal of the plan. "We want to move from 5.5 million hectares to 11 million hectares in 2017, with 2 million native", informed Minc.

The next step is the definition of sectoral targets with commitments by sector and by region. Minc reported that at the beginning of 2010 the plan must go through a revision incorporating new ideas and new data from the inventory of emissions that is being drafted by the Ministry of Mines and Energy.

Goals - With the National Plan on Climate Change, the Brazilian government intends to encourage the development of activities in Brazil and collaborate with the global effort to combat the problem. Furthermore, wants to create conditions for overcoming the internal social and economic consequences of climate change.

The plan has eight goals and power is divided into four areas: mitigation, vulnerability, impact and adaptation, research and development, and training and dissemination.

In its first phase, the plan seeks to organize the actions under way, strengthen existing measures and to identify and create new opportunities, to enable the exchange of experiences and the integration of shares in several segments of society. Is the primary function of maximizing the positive results of all national efforts in favor of global climate and strengthening the adaptive process of the country to the climate system.

In the coming phases, should be included mechanisms for assessing the performance of ongoing actions and results. There will also be presented actions and additional instruments, including agreements with the states of the federation, intended to ensure that the goals can be achieved.

In this sense, studies must be carried out on new economic mechanisms to promote sustainable development, including tax incentives and tax, among others.

So that the plan is the result of an ongoing dialogue with civil society, there will even be a channel of communication with the objective of ensuring broad participation of the population in all its phases.

For each goal made were established actions to achieve them. The government's understanding is that for the development of the country occur on sustainable bases, the government actions directed to the productive sector should seek, increasingly, the promotion of more efficient use of natural resources, scientific, technological and human.

Under the plan, efforts to foster a level of performance in the sectors of the economy, based on best practices in each of the specific sectors, will seek a way to reduce the carbon content of the Brazilian gross domestic product, increase the competitiveness of products Brazilians in the international market, increase income and generate economic surpluses that can ensure higher levels of social welfare.

Main objectives of the National Action Plan on Climate Change

1. Identify, plan and coordinate actions to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases generated in Brazil, as well as those necessary to adapt to the impacts of society occurring due to climate change;
2. Encourage increases in efficiency in the performance of the sectors of the economy in constant search of the reach of best practices;
3. Find maintain the high participation of renewable energy in the electric array, preserving position of prominence that Brazil always occupied in the international arena;
4. Promote sustainable increase the participation of biofuels in transport array of national and, moreover, act aimed at structuring of an international market in sustainable biofuels;
5. Find a sustained reduction in the rates of deforestation in their average four, in all Brazilian biomes, until it reaches the zero illegal deforestation;
6. Eliminate the net loss of the area of forest cover in Brazil, 2015;
7. Strengthen intersectoral actions towards reducing the vulnerability of populations;
8. seek to identify the environmental impacts arising out of climate change and promote the development of scientific research so that we can draw a strategy that minimizes socio-economic costs of adapting the country