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title: Climate finance of the wrong kind in Brazil
date: 2017-12-14T07:23:00Z
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As world leaders were sitting down in Paris to talk about climate finance, **Brazilian senators were voting on a new decree that would hand the oil and gas industry hundreds of billions in tax cuts.**

Our community came together both in Brazil and globally to fight the proposal. **The vote was super close, something rare in senate votes.** Senators passed the measure by 27 to 20 votes. **In part, thanks to our efforts we made this a big issue in Brazil.** We should be proud of what we were able to achieve.

The new law means that Brazil effectively ignores its commitments made 2 years ago in the Paris agreement and would result in a 75 billion tons of CO2 being released into our atmosphere, greatly accelerating climate change.

This is obviously a setback, but what we can be sure our community helped make a difference. **Thanks to our efforts we raised this vote to the top of the political and media agenda.** We delivered a big people-powered petition to the Brazilian senate, had lots of coverage across the media, and also we sent our messages of hope directly to those senators who were wavering in a big global tweet action.

###### _(Example of tweets sent to senators)_

> The Brazilian Senate could pass a measure that would hand some of the biggest oil companies in the world a giant tax break worth $300 billion. Please send tweets to the Brazilian swing-vote Senators: [https://t.co/TkHNG3pFdB](https://t.co/TkHNG3pFdB) [\#MPdoTrilhãoNão](https://twitter.com/hashtag/MPdoTrilh%C3%A3oN%C3%A3o?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\#ZeroFósseis](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZeroF%C3%B3sseis?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> 
> — 350 dot org (@350) [December 12, 2017](https://twitter.com/350/status/940379197448519680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Brazilian senators aren’t always used to hearing from global voices and our collective efforts, both in Brazil and globally had an effect on how close the vote was. **Let’s be proud of the solidarity in action we’ve demonstrated. No matter where the fossil fuel industry is active, we will be too.**

Our fight isn’t over as well. The new law may in fact prove to be questionable constitutionally, so **we are also challenging this decision through the courts.** We may just stop this dangerous tax subsidy yet, and as a global community will fight until the end until we have a #fossilfree future.

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