Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received a warm welcome at the COP27 summit in Egypt on Wednesday, November 16, where he pledged to recommit the rainforest nation to tackling the climate crisis and offered to hold future UN climate talks. COP27 READ:
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received a warm welcome at the COP27 summit in Egypt on Wednesday, November 16, where he pledged to recommit the rainforest nation to tackling the climate crisis and offered to hold future UN climate talks.
The country had been set to host the annual UN summit in 2019, until Lula’s predecessor – right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro – refused to go ahead with it. Lula’s choice to make the COP27 summit the focus of his first international visit since being elected to the presidency last month has helped to energize this year’s talks in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.Arriving with a light security detail, Lula walked to the edge of the crowd, reaching out to shake outstretched hands. He was guided by governor Helder Barbalho of Para, the Brazilian state with the highest rate of deforestation.
Lula won office last month over Bolsonaro, who appointed climate skeptics as ministers and saw deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest spike to a 15-year high.
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