The overall objective of the National Plan on Climate Change is to identify, plan and coordinate actions and measures that may be undertaken to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions generated in Brazil. In addition, it aims at designing necessary measures to adapt society to the environmental impacts caused by the climate change. Mitigation and adaptation measures and the development of research aim at the achievement of the following specific objectives: Encourage increased efficiency in the performance of economic sectors in the search for consistency of best practice. Seek to maintain a high level of renewable energy. Promote the sustainable increase of the biofuels in the national transport and also work towards the structuring of an international market for sustainable biofuels. Seek sustained reduction of deforestation rates, in its four-year average, in all biomes, until zero illegal deforestation is achieved. Eliminate the loss of forest cover area in Brazil by 2015. Strengthen intersectoral actions aimed at reducing the vulnerabilities of populations. To seek to identify the environmental impacts of climate change and to foster the development of scientific research. It deals with mitigation of greenhouse gases and action strategies aiming to maximize the use of the mitigation potential of each sector. Among the technologies of mitigation by sector, the following are considered the most relevant: Improved energy supply and distribution efficiency, substitution of more carbon-intensive fuels for those with lower carbon or renewable fuels, and carbon capture and storage. Transportation Sector - Use of efficient vehicles and modernization of the fleet, expansion of the use of rail and waterway systems, and incentives to collective transport instead of private individuals. Building Sector - Use of efficient equipment and solar energy, and an integrated planning system. Agricultural Sector - Adequate management to increase carbon storage in the soil, recovery of degraded areas, cattle raising, crop and fertilization improvements to reduce CH4 and N2O emissions and establishment of energetic crops. Reduction of deforestation, promoting the sustainable forest management and reforestation, and encouraging the use of forest products and byproducts, obtained on a sustainable basis, for energy generation. Waste Sector - Methane recovery from landfills, incineration with energy recovery, and recycling.
National Plan on Climate Change (PNMC).