Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received a superstar welcome at the COP27 summit in Egypt on Wednesday as he pledged to recommit the rainforest nation to tackling the climate crisis and offered to hold future U.N. climate talks.
"I'm here today to say that Brazil is ready to come back," Lula said, drawing cheers from the crowd of delegates at the international climate summit in the seaside resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest spanning more than 6 million square kilometers, absorbs vast amounts of greenhouse gas, which if released would blow global climate targets. Lula emphasized that climate change could only be addressed hand in hand with social justice, with the crowd applauding his pronouncements on ending inequality and improving conditions for natives people.
It was his second speech at the conference on Wednesday, both of which were thronged by admirers chanting "Lula! Lula!" and shaking the conference venue walls with their cheers. "It's very positive that he's coming here as president-elect because the current president never came to COPs," said Carlos Nobre, a climate scientist at the University of Sao Paulo.
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