The Brazilian government is preparing to organize an auction in oil exploration months before hosting the United Nations COP30 climate summit, despite opposition to environmental activists and indigenous societies concerned about the environmental and climate effects of the plans.
Brazil’s oil sector organizer, ANP, will work on an exploration rights auction to 172 oil and gas blocks that extend to 56,000 square miles (146,000 square kilometers), an area of more than twice the size of Scotland, most of them abroad.
It includes “Judgment Day Auction”, as the activists called it 47 pieces in the Amazon Basin, in a sensitive area near the escape of the river that fossil fuel companies consider A. New promising oil.
This auction is a key to Brazil’s plans to become the fourth largest oil producer in the world, and it is an ambitious supported by the president, Luiz Inácio LULA DA Silva, who argues that oil revenues will bring economic development and energy transfer.
But a wide range of groups, including environmental scientists, Federal prosecutors Even Oil workers unionsIt is paid to cancel the bidding round, noting that environmental evaluation studies are insufficient, the violation of the rights of the indigenous population and the incompatibility of increasing oil production with the Brazilian climate obligations.
International energy The agency says that the development of new oil and gas fields is not compatible with global efforts to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Brazil Climainfo Instituto account Burning oil and gas from all 172 blocs offered, if they move forward to the stage of production, can lead to the release of more than 11 billion tons of CO2 The equivalent – similar to more than six years of emissions from the polluted agricultural business sector in the country, or 5 % of emissions that humanity can still produce to maintain global heating within 1.5 ° C.
The areas in the Amazon basin alone can release 4.7 billion tons of Co2 Video.
“This auction constitutes a truly serious and serious threats to biological diversity, societies and climate,” said Nicole Vegherido de Oliveira, CEO of Instituto International Artara, a civil society organization that filed five lawsuits against auction next week.
Many oil exploration blocks offered have old or semi -old environmental evaluation studies. Some interfere with the original areas or memorization areas, including marine reserves around the island’s paradise in Fernando de Noronha. Ariara also argues that ANP has failed to assess the real range of greenhouse gas emissions from exploration and possible future oil and gas in these areas.
The Amazon Basin is located in the midst of the discussion surrounding the future of oil exploration in Brazil. The state -controlled oil company, Petrobras, spent years in an attempt to obtain an environmental license to drill there, and it was subjected to no pressure on the International Environmental Energy Agency, Ebama, to submit the permit.
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The areas that will be affected by drilling abroad, wild -related activities include sensitive coral reefs, and the original societies that they say were not properly consulted.
“We are the indigenous people who are dominated by this process, and we do not see or hear,” said Edmilson Oliveira, coordinator of a group of indigenous people who publicly oppose exploration activities off the northern coast of Brazil.
“Thousands of people are already saying not to explore oil in the Amazon basin and the Brazilian government, just a few months of hosting Cop30Continuing betting on oil is a flagrant contradiction.
“The Amazon is seriously close to the turning point, and clinging to this model pushes Brazil and the world closer to the collapse of the climate.”
