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Brazil says it’s a climate leader. Not everyone buys it.

BELÉM, Brazil — Brazil intended this year’s United Nations climate talks now underway in the Amazon rainforest, to be the capstone of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s effort to establish the ...
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Brazil's COP30: Bridging the gap between climate ambition and reality

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brazil's Minister of Environment Marina Silva (L) and Brazil's Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara participate in the ...
Democracy Now

Brazil’s Contradictory Climate Policies: Lula Gov’t Reduces Deforestation, Boosts Oil & Gas Production

As we broadcast from the United Nations climate summit in Belém, we look at Brazil’s contradictory climate policies. The Lula government has reduced deforestation in the Amazon while also approving ...
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Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says

Ahead of the COP30 U.N. climate summit in Brazil, a report by environment-monitoring organization SkyTruth mapped the environmental impact of the advance of offshore exploration for fossil fuels in ...
The New York Times

Indigenous People, Long Sidelined at Climate Talks, Take the Stage in Brazil

This summit is unlike any of its predecessors in at least one significant way: The Indigenous presence is palpable and strong. By Somini Sengupta Brad Plumer and David Gelles Reporting from Belém, ...