Brazil recorded 38,000 fires in August 2024, the worst for that month since 2010.
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is set to open the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with a call for global action against climate change.The 79th annual gathering of world leaders will see Lula deliver his message from New York.
Enforcing this has been delayed due to a six-month strike at Brazil's environmental regulator, Ibama, which ended in August—long after the administration was aware of the heightened risk of fires, exacerbated by an ongoing drought.Environmentalists and political analysts have expressed mixed reactions to Lula's handling of the crisis.
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