Brazil says will need to resettle those hit by climate disasters

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A man wades through the water in a flooded street in the community of Pilar in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, January 15, 2024. /CFP

Brazil will need to relocate citizens in areas that have been hit repeatedly by storms and other disasters supercharged by climate change, the country's Environment Minister Marina Silva told Reuters in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.

Climate change globally is expected to make certain areas unlivable and drive the migration of hundreds of millions or billions of people by 2050 as they flee from rising sea levels, aridity, floods and other disasters.

People bathe in the middle of the week and sit under umbrellas on Arembepe beach during a heatwave, Salvador, Brazil, November 15, 2023. /CFP

Brazil already needs to start planning to move some of its citizens from vulnerable areas, Silva said, speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

"In certain situations, we will need to relocate the population," she said.

A man sails a boat in a flooded neighborhood in Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, November 19, 2023. /CFP

She pointed to areas of the southern-most state of Rio Grande do Sul, where floods have hit repeatedly in the past year and killed dozens.

"In Rio Grande do Sul, we have families that were affected by floods three times in one year. There's no point in rebuilding your house in the same place, or rebuilding that business."

Silva said that the government is working to declare climate emergencies in more than 1,000 municipalities in the country in order to free up funding to help these areas to adapt to climate change.

"Brazil is a developing country, it doesn't have the resources to carry out a structured process of adaptation overnight. These are highly expensive, onerous investments."

Source(s): Reuters