Can Brazil Save the Amazon Rainforest? Marina Silva Is Trying
Brazil’s environment minister, a renowned former activist, helped push climate change to the top of President Lula’s agenda. Her next task is to do the same thing for the world.
Marina Silva photographed in Brasilia, Brazil, last month.
Photographer: Fernanda Frazão/BloombergWhen the United Nations climate conference COP29 kicks off Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, attendees will be grappling with the reelection of former US President Donald Trump. Countries will try to find a path forward that bypasses Trump, who is hostile to emissions-cutting policies and has vowed to pull the country back out of the Paris accord.
Yet even as delegates arrive in Baku, preparations are underway for the 2025 edition of the summit, in Brazil. COP30 will be the first COP held in the Amazon rainforest and will see the debut of a new global order on climate, with the US likely playing a much diminished role and China, possibly, a larger one. That raises the stakes, and the pressure on the host — which was already high.