“Brazil is back!”: The elected president of the Latin American giant, Lula, proposed on Wednesday to organize the world climate conference in 2025 “in the Amazon”, green lung essential to the balance of the climate and global biodiversity. An announcement that comes to reinvigorate a COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, bogged down in disagreements, just like the reaffirmation by the G20 summit in Bali of ambitious climate objectives.
COP 27, the first trip abroad for President Lula
“We are going to talk to the UN secretary general and ask him to take COP 30 to the Amazon,” said Lula, who will take office on January 1 and is making his first trip abroad to COP 27 since his appointment. election at the end of October. “Brazil should not be isolated” on the international scene, he stressed. “Brazil is back” and “will be a positive force to meet global challenges,” he had already tweeted on Tuesday, upon his arrival in Egypt.
Under the mandate of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil had been effectively sidelined, in particular because of the policies of the far-right president favoring agribusiness and the mining sector, with a massive increase in deforestation.
Fight for “zero deforestation”
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the contrary promised to fight for “zero deforestation”. He is due to deliver a long-awaited speech in Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday late afternoon. Lula met Tuesday evening with US Special Envoy for the Climate John Kerry, who promised that “we will work diligently to achieve this goal (of preserving the Amazon) together”. He also met the Chinese envoy for the climate at the COP.
China and the United States are, in that order, the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Recent diplomatic tensions between the two countries have raised fears for the climate negotiations. But delegates to COP 27, where discussions are marked by sharp opposition, particularly on financial issues, were reassured by the conclusions of the G20 summit in Bali.