Brazil Hopes to Make the Amazon a Model for a Green Economy

Photo caption: Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the 2023 UN climate change conference in Dubai. UNFCCC. Article by Fred Pearce. Yale Environment 360  – November 7, 2024.

“We must ensure that taking care of the forest is more profitable than cutting down the trees.” So declared Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a pitch to Japanese investors in May. Weeks before, Lula had sealed a deal with French President Emmanuel Macron for a billion-dollar Amazon investment package — all part of his crusade to […]

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