, Columnist
Brazil’s Forests Did Better Under Captain Chainsaw
Climate change has wreaked havoc in the Amazon.
Photographer: Leonardo Carrato/BloombergWhatever happened to the savior of the Amazon?
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva once had a decent claim to that title. Deforestation decreased by about 80% during his first term in office from 2003 to 2011, driving a stunning 39% fall in emissions in a country whose carbon pollution is shaped above all by the state of its boundless jungles.