On the heels of the environmentally hostile Bolsonaro, the incoming administration has big plans, and bigger challenges.
Jeff Abbott is an independent journalist currently based out of Guatemala. "The Other Americans" is a column created by Abbott for The Progressive on human migration in North and Central America.
at the United Nations COP27 meeting in Egypt in November. "We will do whatever it takes to have zero deforestation and the degradation of our biomes."at the meeting ahead of his speech, "You all know that we are going to undertake a big fight against deforestation." Lula had prioritized climate change and the protection of the Amazon during his previous two terms as Brazil's president, from 2003 to 2011.
But the incoming administration faces major challenges in achieving its new goals: Lula is inheriting a country whose environmental safeguards have been slashed under the far-right administration of Jair Bolsonaro. Specific challenges extend beyond just slowing deforestation, but also addressing the total deregulation of measures to protect the rainforest, and impunity for companies that are illegally expanding operations in the Amazon.
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