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    Victory speech - Translated




    Onathanwatts - “Let’s fight for zero deforestation,” Lula says in first speech as president-elect. “Brazil is ready to resume its leading role in the fight against the climate crisis, protecting all our biomes, especially the Amazon Forest.” https://twitter.com/jonathanwatts/st...90387733594112
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    The top candidate is Henrique Meirelles, former CEO of FleetBoston, Brazil’s second largest external creditor after CitiGroup
    he is currently a consultant to Binance

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    Looks like civil war to me.
    Putin will change his mind, he wants to see blood in S. America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Lula is a bigger Putin and Xi ally than Bolsinaro was
    Uhuh . . . are you still trying?

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    Quote Originally Posted by pickel View Post
    Helge is still rethinking though, and it must be tearing him apart.


    Unfortunately I can't find a single good thing to say about Bolsonaro.

    And I do like my "nuances".

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    Bolsonaro will speak to the Brazilian people on Tuesday.

    Betting he comes up with some "election fraud" bullshit?

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    Even his team of allies want him to concede.......

    President Jair Bolsonaro will not publicly address his defeat in Brazil’s presidential election until Tuesday, his communications minister said, amid doubts over whether the far-right nationalist will accept the victory of his leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

    Bolsonaro was holding off on making remarks so he could prepare a speech, Communications Minister Fabio Faria told Reuters. But it was not clear if Bolsonaro would concede defeat as his allies were encouraging him to do.

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    Should be an an interesting speech. He'll have to say something about the election results. If it were Argentina I wouldn't have predicted an easy handover, with Brazil I don't know. I hope da Silva is able to maintain a neutral stance in the political arena. I like what I've seen from da Silva. BRICK could be instrumental in world politics if they stick together.
    A true diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a manner that you will be asking for directions.

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    could be helpful.




    “This is the result we were all hoping for.” The center-left European lawmaker MEP Kathleen Van Brempt captured the mood in Brussels on Monday, as the EU breathed a diplomatic sigh of relief over the victory of left-winger Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in the second round of Brazil’s presidential election.

    Brussels has big ambitions in Latin America. The European Union needs to diversify its trade flows away from Russia and — to a lesser extent — China. With far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on his way out of power, the EU is now keen to revive its ties with Brazil on climate change, deforestation and trade.

    “I look forward to working with you to address pressing global challenges, from food security to trade and climate change,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted to Lula on Monday morning.

    But Brussels may have to wait in line. Russia wants to trade and China will also be competing for influence in the region, especially after relations between Brazil and Beijing had soured under Bolsonaro. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian welcomed Lula's victory on Monday, saying that China wants to raise the comprehensive strategic partnership with Brazil to a new level.

    The most concrete way for the EU to get its foot in the door is to finally tie up the loose ends with the trade deal between the EU and the Latin American Mercosur bloc — made up of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

    The closer cooperation would not just ease trade between the economies on both sides of the Atlantic, but is also key for Brussels to be less dependent on China’s raw materials for its green transition.

    The Mercosur pact was sealed at a political level in 2019 but has been effectively on ice since then, mostly because of the rampant deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest under Bolsonaro, which dismayed the EU and French President Emmanuel Macron in particular. Free traders also pointed to more protectionist concerns, particularly in France, which held up progress for the deal over fears of opening the floodgates to imports of Brazilian beef.

    Lula's election may be the key to easing those environmental concerns and unlocking the Mercosur deal. In a huge win for the global fight against climate change, he has made clear he's keen to tackle deforestation of the Amazon.

    From the EU side, the political stars are also aligned. A range of trade-friendly countries — the Czechs, the Swedes and the Spanish — are at the helm of the EU’s rotating Council presidency this year and next and have already said they want to get the deal back on track.

    There may be trouble ahead

    To get the agreement through the European Parliament, Brussels plans to negotiate an extra environmental protection document with the Mercosur bloc to try to assuage climate concerns.

    But just how far those extra demands should go is already a sensitive discussion within the European Commission, and will likely prove to be even more contentious when it is discussed with the European Parliament, EU countries and the Mercosur countries.

    "We will not nail it at the door of the Berlaymont," said a senior EU official, referring to the European Commission building in Brussels. "We need to play this carefully." The official stressed that the EU should propose something that is "more palatable for the other side."

    Van Brempt, the trade committee MEP from the socialists, fired a warning against too much flexibility from Brussels. If the Commission wants this deal to pass through Parliament, extra environmental commitments from the Mercosur countries cannot be empty promises, she said. If Brazil or the other countries don’t live up to their promises, they should risk trade sanctions, in line with the EU’s new policy of ensuring trade deals are green.

    If Mercosur countries have additional demands to bring to the table, then so be it, Van Brempt argued. “We have to get this deal right,” she said. “Trade is a key component of our geopolitical direction. For that, a renewed cooperation with Brazil is key.”

    On his end, Lula has already said he wants to renegotiate some areas of the Mercosur deal in favor of Brazil’s industrial development. Strengthening Brazilian industry was one of his main promises during the campaign.

    "In the first six months, we will conclude the agreement with the European Union," Lula said in September. That, he said, must be "an agreement that takes into account the need for Brazil to industrialize again."

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    Brazilian trumpanzees are naturally up in arms.

    Protests by backers of Jair Bolsonaro, led by truck drivers, have spread across the country as the Brazilian president remains silent over his loss in Sunday’s election, so far refusing to concede defeat to his foe Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

    Supporters of the firebrand president, unhappy with the election result, blocked roads across 23 states and the capital and restricted access to Sao Paulo international airport late Monday evening, forcing the cancellation of some flights. Over 300 federal highways were partially or fully blocked at one point, according to the police.


    Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who also oversaw the electoral court for the election process, ordered the federal highway police to clear the protests, warning of fines reaching 100,000 reais ($19,306) per hour per vehicle and that the agency’s director could be sidelined if he didn’t comply.

    Brazil truckers block roads as Bolsonaro maintains silence | Americas – Gulf News


    It also transpires that up to 100 separate criminal investigations into Bolsonaro corruption that were rebuffed by his choice of AG will be back on the table the day the new guy takes over.

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    Early………

    Brazil's Bolsonaro to speak today, won't contest election result - minister | Reuters

    BRASILIA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is set to make an official statement on his election defeat later on Tuesday, a minister said, adding that the far-right leader will not contest the results.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    It also transpires that up to 100 separate criminal investigations into Bolsonaro corruption that were rebuffed by his choice of AG will be back on the table the day the new guy takes over.
    How many more Trump-esque likenesses . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    Early………

    Brazil's Bolsonaro to speak today, won't contest election result - minister | Reuters

    BRASILIA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is set to make an official statement on his election defeat later on Tuesday, a minister said, adding that the far-right leader will not contest the results.

    He didn't concede either.

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    Is he loading up a u-haul with classified documents?

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    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    BRICK could be instrumental in world politics if they stick together.
    You might even learn how to spell it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    He didn't concede either.
    Never ever made/makes a difference. The loser/s (trump) lost




    Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday finally broke his silence after losing Sunday's presidential runoff against leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

    Driving the news: During a brief press conference in Brasilia, Bolsonaro thanked Brazilians who voted for him, and while he did not explicitly concede or recognize Lula or his victory, he vowed to respect the constitution.

    Why it matters: Two days after losing the presidential election, Bolsonaro agreed to a transition of power, easing suspicions that he may challenge the results after saying for months that the only way he could lose would be if the vote was rigged.

    What they're saying: "President Bolsonaro has authorized me — when requested, based on the law — to start the transition process," Bolsonaro’s chief of staff, Ciro Nogueira, said following the president’s speech.

    Of note: Following Bolsonaro's loss, thousands of his supporters took to the streets, blocking roads, in a bid to overturn the election, per the New York Times.


    • Although he said the protests "are the fruit of the indignation and feelings of injustice in the electoral process," Bolsonaro urged his supporters to stop the disruptions during his speech Tuesday.
    • "Peaceful demonstrations will always be welcome," he said. "But our methods cannot be those of the left, like property invasion, destruction of goods and restrictions on the right to come and go."


    Context: Bolsonaro, who received 49.1% of the vote in Sunday's election, had not publicly commented on the results until Tuesday's brief speech.


    • Sunday's victory marked a stunning political comeback for Lula, who was sidelined during the last presidential election because of corruption convictions.


    What's next: Lula, who won the election by less than 2 percentage points, is due to take office in January.

    Quote Originally Posted by pickel View Post
    Is he loading up a u-haul with classified documents?
    He’ll be lucky to escape jail time.

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    Brazilian football ultras keen to reach away games have been hailed as democratic heroes after breaking through road blockades set up by far-right supporters of president Jair Bolsonaro, who refuse to accept his defeat to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s tightly contested presidential election.
    Who says sports is apolitical

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    Still no public concession.

    Plenty of time for him to "stop" the imaginary "steal"...

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    Who is Lula? Winner of Brazil's presidential election




    In this March 22, 1979, file photo, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is lifted by metalworker colleagues after a union rally in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.

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    An update. But first.........

    “the will of the majority, as it is expressed in the polls, can never be contested”




    President Jair Bolsonaro met briefly on Thursday with the envoy coordinating the transfer of power to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, four days after Bolsonaro's tight election loss that sparked protests by his supporters amid his refusal to publicly concede.

    The meeting between Brazil's far-right outgoing president and Vice President-Elect Geraldo Alckmin took place at the presidential palace, according to Alckmin, who heads da Silva's transition team. The team had earlier arrived in the capital of Brasilia, launching the process that will culminate with da Silva’s Jan. 1 inauguration.

    While Bolsonaro declined to publicly concede defeat in his first public comments Tuesday, his chief of staff Ciro Nogueira told reporters he had received authorization from the incumbent for the transition process to proceed.

    “It was positive,” Alckmin told journalists after Thursday's meeting with Bolsonaro. He refused to answer whether the incumbent had congratulated him for Sunday's victory.

    Bolsonaro spoke about "the federal government’s readiness to provide every information, help, so we have a transition that is guided by the public interest,” the vice president-elect said.

    Alckmin's team's first meeting of the day was with Sen. Marcelo Castro, who is responsible for the government's 2023 budget proposal. The vice president-elect urged lawmakers to adopt an emergency measure to allow new spending that the future administration considers essential, including monthly welfare payments of 600 reals ($118).

    Without that emergency action, the current budget would reduce these payments to 400 reals ($78) in January. Lawmakers told reporters that a decision on whether to make the change would be made by Monday.

    Alckmin added he will return to Brasilia on Tuesday for more talks.

    Da Silva’s Worker’s Party is also seeking negotiations with Chamber of Deputies Speaker Arthur Lira, who has been a close ally of Bolsonaro. He is expected to seek reelection for the job next year.

    “He showed willingness to discuss whatever is set as a priority for the (future) government. The doors are open,” Workers' Party lawmaker José Guimaraes said.

    The meetings aim to ensure governability with a potentially contentious Congress and provide reassurance that Bolsonaro's administration will be cooperative.

    There had been widespread concern Bolsonaro might present claims of fraud and challenge the results of Sunday's election, following the roadmap of former U.S. President Donald Trump.

    There have been questions about the ease with which da Silva will be able to govern, partly because conservative lawmakers from Bolsonaro’s party and others did well in the first round of the election on Oct. 2. In addition, the “Big Center” bloc of politicians known for exchanging support for positions and pork has been supporting Bolsonaro to date.

    An opening came Sunday when Lira became the first prominent Bolsonaro ally to recognize the election results. Lira oversees what has become commonly referred to as the “secret budget,” which directs billions to lawmakers for pet projects.

    The mechanism was adopted during Bolsonaro’s government, enabling Congress and the executive branch to bypass a budget ceiling. During the campaign, da Silva criticized the program, saying it depleted funds for key social needs and promised to put an end to it. Many lawmakers already expect to receive funds for spending in their states.

    Senator-elect Wellington Dias, one of the coordinators of da Silva's campaign, told journalists that “it is not the moment” to discuss an end to that mechanism.

    Congress has until Dec. 17 to approve a 2023 spending bill with input from the new administration.

    In a video posted to social media Wednesday, Bolsonaro addressed his supporters, calling for them to end their nationwide protests. They had blocked hundreds of roads, with some people calling for military intervention to overturn the election results.

    In the narrowest presidential election since Brazil’s return to democracy in 1985, da Silva beat Bolsonaro by about 2 million votes.

    “I know you’re upset. I’m just as sad and upset as you are. But we have to keep our heads straight,” Bolsonaro said. “Closing roads in Brazil jeopardizes people’s right to come and go.”

    By Thursday morning, more than 850 protests had broken up, leaving 73 partial or full blockages of roads, the federal highway police said. Of the 13 full blockages, most were in the southern state of Santa Catarina.

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    • Brazil, Indonesia and DRC in talks to form ‘Opec of rainforests’


    The three major tropical rainforest nations – Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – are in talks to form a strategic alliance to coordinate their conservation, nicknamed “OPEC of the rainforest”, the Guardian understands.

    The election of Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, was followed by a flurry of activism to avoid the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, which scientists have warned is dangerously close to a tipping point after years of deforestation under its far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro.

    During his first speech as president-elect, Lula pledged to fight for not deforesting the Brazilian Amazon Amazon, while Colombia proposed the creation of an Amazon bloc in COP 27, and Norway’s environment minister is moving to re-create a billion-dollar fund to protect the rainforest next. It was discontinued under Bolsonaro.

    Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are home to 52% of the world’s remaining tropical primary forests, which are essential to averting climate catastrophe, and conservation talks are delivering on Lula’s campaign promise.

    The coalition may see rainforest nations submit joint proposals on carbon markets and finance, a long-standing sticking point in UN talks on climate and biodiversity, as part of an effort to encourage developed countries to fund conservation, which is key to limiting global warming to 1.5 C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels.

    The three nations – home to the Amazon, the Congo Basin and the forests of Borneo and Sumatra, threatened by commercial logging, illegal mining and exploitation – signed an agreement at Cop26 in Glasgow to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030.

    Oscar Soria, campaign manager for activist website Avaaz, said the alliance could be a “rainforest OPEC”, similar to a cartel of oil producers, coordinating over fossil fuel production levels and price. Before his election, Lula said any alliance could be expanded to include other rainforest nations, such as Peru and Cambodia.

    “This deal could be a promising step forward, as long as indigenous peoples and local communities are fully consulted in the process while respecting their rights and leadership,” Syria said.

    “These three ecosystems are essential to the ecological stability of the world, and the answer to the prosperity of these forests lies in the people who live in them.”

    Carlos Nobre, a Brazilian Earth system scientist and co-chair of the Amazon Science Commission (SPA), said Lula’s election was a moment of opportunity for rainforest conservation.

    The president-elect is already working with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia to protect all the tropical forests on the planet. He also reiterated his government’s commitment to not deforesting the Brazilian Amazon during his presidency, stating that the SPA would launch a proposal for a “restoration arc” covering more than 1 million hectares (about 4,000 square miles). , mainly in the southern Amazon near the Andes.

    “Implementing such a project would protect the Amazon rainforest from reaching the tipping point, and would also remove more than one billion tons of carbon dioxide of the atmosphere for several decades – an obligatory target for combating the climate emergency. ”

    https://chof360.com/brazil-indonesia...orests-brazil/

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    Environmentalists are calling Brazil’s presidential election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, a big win for the Amazon rain forest. The ecosystem suffered record high levels of deforestation after the nation’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro took office nearly four years ago.

    Brazil contains more than half of Amazonia, a region whose fate is crucial to slowing climate change. During Bolsonaro’s tenure, loggers, cattle ranchers and soy farmers cut down or burned more than two billion trees in the Brazilian Amazon, many of them illegally, according to the Brazilian environmental research groups Imazon and MapBiomas. Scientists worry that the rain forest may be approaching a tipping point beyond which much of the region would change to dry savanna. Fewer trees have also meant less rain and higher temperatures for the Amazon region, enhancing drought.

    Bolsonaro rolled back legal protections for the forest and its Indigenous inhabitants, and he opened the region to dam building and agribusiness expansion. By contrast, President-Elect Lula, who served two terms as president from 2003 through 2010, said during his campaign that preserving the rain forest will be one of his top priorities. “Brazil is ready to retake its leadership in the fight against the climate crisis,” he told supporters in a victory speech in São Paulo. “Brazil and the planet need a living Amazon.”

    How much can the new president accomplish after he enters office in January? Scientific American spoke with Paulo de Bessa Antunes, an environmental law professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a former federal prosecutor in Brazil. He fought the Bolsonaro administration in the courtroom and has prosecuted many environmental cases.

    In the conversation, Bessa Antunes decried the lawlessness of the Bolsonaro years but said that Brazil has excellent environmental regulations and plenty of highly motivated people in its agencies who are ready to help Lula achieve his goals. Based on his faith in the law, Bessa Antunes seems genuinely optimistic about Lula’s chances for protecting Amazon forests.

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    The 77-year-old leader has made the shift clear by choosing the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt as his first international trip after defeating President Jair Bolsonaro last month. Even if Lula only takes office Jan. 1, he will present his vision for the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and the focus of international outrage with Bolsonaro, at COP27 on Wednesday morning.

    “One of the main things that I’m going to do is to put Brazil back at the center of international geopolitics,” Lula said last week in Brasilia. “I will have more talks with world leaders in Egypt in a single day than Bolsonaro has had in four years.”

    During the campaign, Lula has vowed to reduce deforestation of the rainforest to zero and to protect the indigenous peoples living there in sharp contrast to Bolsonaro, who has been the target of international disapproval for loosening legislation and surveillance agencies designed to protect the Amazon.

    The leftist leader has also said he will make voluntary commitments to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. In exchange, he’ll ask rich nations to pledge more funds for the protection not only of the Amazon but all remaining tropical forests, most of them in Brazil, Indonesia and Congo. A key step will be the revival of the Amazon Fund maintained by rich nations including Norway and Germany and which was frozen in 2019 when Bolsonaro changed the country’s governance.

    Lula is also creating new cabinet positions to handle environmental issues. In addition to an environment minister, he’ll appoint a minister for indigenous peoples and a special climate envoy, a position akin to that of John Kerry in the US. Some of them may be announced during his visit to Egypt.

    Brazil needs to leave behind the global distrust from the last four years, according to Helder Barbalho, governor to the North state Para, who will also be present at COP27.

    “We have to win back the credibility, even if it is to demand more vehemently compensation from industrialized countries and their players”, he said.

    Lula’s return to power paves the way for a fresh, constructive start in climate discussions between Brazil and the world, and especially Europe, an official from a Western European country said. Another European official said the reelection of Bolsonaro would have been a catastrophe for the global environmental agenda.

    Yet despite the change in tone, preventing the Amazon deforestation won’t be easy for Lula given the geographical challenges of a huge, isolated land -- about half the size of the US -- hard to police and filled with violent gangs with a government facing fiscal constrains.

    At the same time, Lula will also have to calibrate its policies toward the US, China and Russia at a moment of volatile relationships among the world’s largest economies. The complexity of the global scenario leaves little space for errors by the new Brazilian president.

    Maintaining such relations will require a lot of diplomacy by Brazil as Western officials privately say they expect Lula to take some distance from Russia -- or at least refrain from saying that Ukraine shares blame for the war, as he told Time magazine in May.

    His comments on Ukraine raised eyebrows in European capitals, with a top European official saying before the election that Lula urgently needs to change his lenses and drop “third-worldish views” if he returns to power. Lula’s ties with Russia and China are set to complicate his push for a reform of the UN Security Council that seeks to include Brazil as a permanent member.

    Another European official downplayed Lula’s comments on Ukraine, saying they reflect Brazil’s historic reluctance in taking sides and its policy of non-interference in domestic issues of other nations.

    In addition, as part of his international agenda Lula intends to boost the BRICS group of major emerging-market countries that currently comprise Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The plan, according to his adviser Celso Amorim, is to include Argentina to “increase the weight of Latin America” in the association.

    Lula’s return is also good news for efforts to revive the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur, a bloc that includes Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. The accord was signed in 2019 but has stalled since then amid European reluctance.

    Lula made clear he is willing to resume the EU-Mercosur deal and he needs some quick foreign affairs victory so there are reasons to be optimistic, a senior EU official said, adding that it won’t be easy because the agreement has become even more unpopular in countries like France.

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    Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Brazil's return to climate diplomacy after outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro spurned the UN process, and drove up Amazon deforestation.

    Driving the news: Lula got a rock star welcome at COP27 in Egypt and forcefully addressed several critical negotiating sticking points, including climate damages.

    Zoom in: Lula, which takes office in January, declared "Brazil is back" in the fight against global warming, vowing to crack down on deforestation and "punish rigorously" those illegally cutting down forests for agriculture or mining.


    • He proposed a new ministry for Indigenous groups and pledged to elevate climate change to the highest levels of his nascent administration.
    • He also vowed to rebuild the environmental monitoring and enforcement agencies that Bolsonaro worked to dismantle.
    • Lula harshly criticized the failure of industrialized countries to live up to their 2009 promise of providing $100 billion a year to developing nations to cope with climate change impacts.


    Between the lines: Lula addressed a major sticking point at the talks, which is how to deal with the matter of climate damages. Known in the UN treaty process as "loss and damage," this issue concerns the fact that the countries being hit hardest by climate change are the ones that did the least to contribute to it.


    • So far, talks in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh have yielded no breakthroughs on whether and how industrialized nations like the U.S. should compensate poorer, developing countries for climate damages.


    What they're saying: "We cannot postpone this debate, we need to deal with the reality of countries that have their own physical integrity of their territories threatened and the survival conditions of its inhabitants seriously compromised," he said.


    • "It's time to act. We can't waste time anymore. We cannot live with this rush towards the abyss," he added.


    Between the lines: Lula is not the only world leader to come to a climate summit and declare their nation was now back on board with addressing the problem. The leaders of Australia, Canada and the U.S. have done so at various points following elections.


    • This illustrates the precariousness of national emissions reduction targets since changes in government can lead to radical shifts in policy.
    • However, Brazil is home to a globally-vital rainforest, which plays a major role in storing carbon as well as circulating water worldwide.
    • Recent studies have shown that a combination of climate change and deforestation is leading at least parts of the Amazon to be net sources of emissions, rather than sinks.


    The bottom line: "There is no climate security for the world without a protected Amazon. We will spare no effort to bring deforestation and degradation of our biomes to zero by 2030," Lula tweeted Wednesday.

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    I am concerned about Bolsonaro's absolute silence for the last two weeks.

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    ^why?

    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Still no public concession.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    ^why?
    Because he's the Brazilian baldy orange cunto. Are you a bit fucking thick or what? You seem to need even the most basic things explained to you.

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