Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received a warm welcome at the COP27 summit in Egypt on Wednesday, where he pledged to recommit the rainforest nation to tackling the climate crisis and offered to hold future U.N. climate talks.
"I am here to say to all of you here that Brazil is back in the world," he said, speaking at an event alongside governors of Brazilian Amazon states.host of COP30
The country had been set to host the annual U.N. 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.
He said Lula would turn around Brazil's environmental policies "180 degrees" from those of Bolsonaro.deforestationLula reduced deforestation to near record lows in his first presidency from 2003 to 2010. For his new administration, he has promised ato restore environmental law enforcement that eroded under Bolsonaro and create green jobs.
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