Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will offer to host a future global climate change summit when he attends the COP27 United Nations climate conference in Egypt next week, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Lula plans to announce an overhaul of Brazil's environmental policies at the summit in Sharm El Sheikh and the creation of a new national climate authority to oversee efforts by all ministries and agencies to combat global warming.
The incoming leftist president, who takes office on Jan. 1, has vowed to re-establish Brazil's role as an important player in international efforts to address climate change after its reputation was damaged by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro stopped plans to host COP25 in Brazil in 2019 when, as president-elect, he asked that the meeting not be held in his country.
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