"Brazil wants to play an important role and collaborate with other countries in the use and dissemination of technology on biofuels and renewable sources of energy”, said on Wednesday (20) senator Serys Slhessarenko (PT-MT), in the beginning of G8+5 Climate Change Legislator’s Forum. In her speech, Slhessarenko defended biofuels as a way to reduce greenhouse gases emissions.

The forum is an initiative of the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (Globe). The group G8+5 is formed by the eight most developed nations of the world - United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, England, France, Italy and Russia – as well as five developing countries - China, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa. Senators Renato Casagrande (PSB-ES) and Cícero Lucena (PSDB-PB) also join that group.

Cícero Lucena, who attended the event’s opening session, defended transferring technology from developed to underdeveloped countries, what was foreseen on United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in 1992.

The senators agree that it is essential to make the population become aware of the importance of environment preservation, in order to reduce the harm caused by climate change.

- We should motivate the countries to have environmental education as an obligatory discipline in the school curriculum in order to promote, little by little, a change in population’s habits - proposed Cícero Lucena.

In the forum, some subjects as deforestation, carbon credit and biofuels were discussed. The goal is to reach an agreement on climate change post-2012. At the end of the next rounds of talk, a consensus declaration will be elaborated and, in June, presented in Japan to the participants of the Dialogue to G8 State chiefs.