Marina Silva says contentious plan would be ‘ethical answer’ to climate crisis but does not commit Brazil to it

Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, has urged all countries to have the courage to address the need for a fossil fuel phaseout, calling the drawing up of a roadmap for it an “ethical” response to the climate crisis.

She emphasised, however, that the process would be voluntary for those governments that wished to participate, and “self-determined”.