A COP at the heart of the planet’s lungs? Brazilian President-elect Lula announced Wednesday, November 16, in Sharm el-Sheikh his wish to organize the UN climate conference in 2025 “in the Amazon”. “We are going to talk to the UN Secretary General and ask him to have COP30 in the Amazon”said Lula, who will take office on January 1, 2023, and is making his first trip abroad since his election at the end of October at COP27, which runs until November 18 in Egypt.
“Brazil should not be isolated” on the international scene, he underlined, while the country had withdrawn into itself under the mandate of Jair Bolsonaro, the outgoing far-right president. Brazil had been selected to organize the COP in 2019, but reversed this decision after the election of Jair Bolsonaro at the end of 2018.