PNMC

National Plan on Climate Change (Plano Nacional sobre Mudança do Clima, PNMC, in Portuguese) is the Brazilian official voluntary commitment with the UNFCCC to achieve greenhouse gases cut between 36.1% and 38.9% of the 2020 projected emissions.

It has established by the Brazilian Act 12,187. The Decree 7390/2010 describes the baseline in 3.236 GtCO2e, or a dropt to 1.168 GtCO2e and 1.259 GtCO2e emissions.

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Anthropogenic emissions

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