This Law establishes the Alagoas State Policy for Coping with Climate Change, its principles, objectives, guidelines, strategies and instruments. The State Policy aims to guarantee the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the mitigation and adaptation of the effects of climate change, through the actions and efforts of the population, the multiple users of natural resources and the Government, ensuring food production, the maintenance of biodiversity, the rights of populations especially vulnerable to climate change, promoting sustainable economic development and ensuring an increase in Alagoas' resilience to ongoing climate change. The State Policy aims to achieve the following specific objectives: contribute to Brazil's commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; ensure that socio-economic development is compatible with the protection of the climate system; stimulate environmentally positive changes in consumption habits and patterns, with a focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions; implement actions to prevent and adapt the impacts of climate change, to protecting the most vulnerable population; preserve existing carbon stocks in the State; promote a sustainable urban planning system with a low environmental and energy impact; promote the competitiveness of Alagoas' environmental goods and services in the domestic and foreign markets; encourage the use of sustainable clean energies, especially solar, wind and biofuels, promoting the gradual and rational replacement of fossil energy sources; promote low-carbon agriculture, as well as guaranteeing the conditions for the sector to cope with climate instability in the coming decades, etc.
Brésil · 2024-07-05