Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has proposed that the climate summit organized annually by the UN be held in the Brazilian Amazon in 2024, in an attempt to vindicate his environmental commitments in contrast to the policies of the current president, Jair Bolsonaro.
«We are going to talk to the UN secretary general so that the next COP is held in Brazil, in the Amazon,» Lula announced on his Twitter account. Next year’s meeting is already fixed, it will take place in Dubai, so the next vacancy is 2024.
In this way, the international delegations could get to know the «concrete reality» of a region usually catalogued as the lungs of the planet, according to Lula, who has traveled these days to the COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) in his first visit abroad after the elections.
Brazil had already proposed to host COP25, in 2019, but the arrival of Bolsonaro to power implied the withdrawal of the South American giant as host of a forum that was initially moved to Chile and, due to protests, finally landed in Spain.
«Brazil is back in the world,» stressed the Brazilian president-elect on his social networks, without directly alluding to his rival in the last elections, whom he has repeatedly reproached for his lack of clear policies in defense of the environment and against climate change.
