Política

Lula launched an import substitution plan and said Brazil can be a "green Arabia"

The Brazilian president made announcements and statements during the presentation at the Planalto of the National Strategy for the Development of the Health Industrial Economic Complex, where he highlighted the country's potential to become a world power in renewable energy.

  • 02/10/2023 • 21:47

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, affirmed this Tuesday that his country can become a world power of renewable energy in the face of climate change, as Saudi Arabia was for fossil fuels with its neoindustrialization, by announcing an ambitious program to substitute imports and expand the industrial complex of medicines and health supplies. "We are building a country," said Lula during a speech at the Planalto Palace, when presenting the National Strategy for the Development of the Health Industrial Economic Complex together with the Minister of Health, Nisia Trindade. Lula said that Brazil has an opportunity with the green energy transition towards industrialization with our standards against climate change and renewable energy, because the country has 60% of the Amazon territory and one of the largest reserves of fresh water in the world, in addition to be the main global producer of soybeans, coffee, orange juice and processed beef. "Brazil can be for the world what Saudi Arabia was for fossil fuels," said Lula, and encouraged the national industry not to have an inferiority complex compared to the powers. The plan provides for state incentives of about $9 billion until 2026 so that the Unified Health System (SUS), Brazil's public health network created in 1988 according to the British public health model, does not depend on the import of key products to its value chain.