Lula Enlists Neighbors in Brazil’s Battle to Save the Amazon
- Leaders from eight South American nations gathering in Belem
- Lula seeks unified push for climate aid at COP28 in Dubai
Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt on Nov. 16, 2022.
Photographer: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images
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The leaders of South America’s Amazon nations gathered in Brazil on Tuesday as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pushes for a united strategy to save the world’s largest rainforest — and pressures the planet’s richest countries to help.
The Amazon Summit, a series of conferences and closed-door meetings, is taking place in Belem, the rainforest city that is slated to host the United Nations’ COP30 climate meetings in 2025.