Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Amazon activist Marina Silva as environment minister
Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday named Amazon defender Marina Silva as environment minister for his incoming government, indicating he will prioritize cracking down on illegal deforestation in the forest even if it means running afoul of powerful agribusiness interests."zero deforestation" in the Amazon
Lula also appointed Carlos Favaro, a soybean producer, as minister off agriculture and Sonia Guajajara as Brazil’s first minister of Indigenous affairs. “Brazil will return to the protagonist role it previously had when it comes to climate, to biodiversity,” Silva told reporters at the summit. Others were more hopeful. Neri Geller, a lawmaker of the agribusiness caucus who acted as a bridge to Lula during the campaign, said things had changed since Silva's departure in 2008.
“We think the Amazon Fund can be opened quickly to support the government’s action plan once the Brazilian government reinstates the governing structure of the fund,” the embassy said in a statement to the AP.
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