Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has unveiled a plan to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon, a critical step in addressing the country’s significant carbon emissions from the region. This strategy, set to be implemented over four years, provides a roadmap to achieve the ambitious goal of halting illegal deforestation by 2030. Lula also announced his government will return Brazil's international carbon reduction commitment to that set in 2015 during the Paris Agreement. At the time, Brazil committed to reducing carbon emissions by 37% by 2025. Lula's predecessor, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, had scaled back Brazil's commitments.
I know Lula is not perfect, but I’m really glad Bolsonaro is out of office and his feeble effort to cling to power fizzled out. The Amazon deforestation he endorsed, tacitly or otherwise, is a travesty from both an environmental and indigenous rights perspective.
Yeah, you’re pretty much never gonna get whatever one deems perfect, but at least there’s always the next election when democracy itself isn’t at stake.