Bloomberg says Lula became a global hero at COP27.

247 - The Bloomberg news agency highlighted on Wednesday (16) the speech of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during COP27. According to the agency, the Brazilian was received with a "hero" welcome by the international community with his speech in defense of the Amazon. 

In its report, the US news agency said that "Lula attracted one of the most enthusiastic crowds at the UN-sponsored climate negotiations." Check out the Bloomberg headline below. reporter Regarding the speech in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

>>> 'There will be no future as long as we continue digging a bottomless pit of inequality,' says Lula at COP27.

Brazil's president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has offered to host the UN climate negotiations in the Amazon in 2025, saying the country will prioritize preserving the world's largest rainforest.

Lula, as the politician is known, is making his first international trip since defeating President Jair Bolsonaro in last month's elections. In contrast to Lula's stance, Bolsonaro has weakened protections for the world's largest rainforest in favor of economic development.

“I am here in front of all of you to say that Brazil is back,” he said in a speech at the COP27 negotiations in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, among governors of Brazil’s Amazonian states and before an enthusiastic crowd chanting his name. “Brazil cannot remain isolated as it has been for the last four years.”

Since Bolsonaro's departure, deforestation rates in the Amazon have reached record levels. At least some parts of it have stopped capturing greenhouse gases and now contribute to global warming, according to scientific research. In his speech at COP27, Lula promised to reverse some of this. 

“We will fight strongly against illegal deforestation,” he stated. “We will create a Ministry of Indigenous Peoples so that they are not treated as criminals by industries – be prepared for that.”

Lula attracted one of the most enthusiastic crowds at the UN-sponsored climate negotiations in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, with hundreds not only of journalists and activists, but also indigenous people dressed in traditional clothing waiting for up to three hours for the president-elect's arrival. When he entered the room, they chanted to the sound of football chants: “Olé, Olé, Olé, Lula Lula!”

However, despite the enthusiastic welcome, preventing deforestation in the Amazon will not be easy for Lula, given the geographical challenges of a vast and isolated territory – about half the size of the US – that is difficult to police and full of violent gangs, with a government facing fiscal constraints.

In another speech given at the end of the day at COP27, Lula promised to make the fight against climate change a central issue within his government, including combating deforestation and environmental crimes. The new government will reinstate institutions that monitor deforestation and study the Amazon, but were dismantled during the Bolsonaro administration.

The president-elect said he will also speak with UN Secretary-General António Guterres to nominate Brazil as the host country for the COP30 negotiations in 2025. The summit should take place in an Amazonian state, he said. 

“People who advocate for climate change should get to know that region firsthand,” he stated. “We must change the way people discuss the Amazon based on concrete reality and not just on books.” 

Brazil will make the climate agenda one of the priorities of the G20 in 2024, when the country assumes the presidency, he stated. Lula intends to raise with rich countries issues that were approved at previous COPs but never implemented.

The president-elect also expressed support for the position of developing countries on what is possibly the most controversial issue debated at COP27 – loss and damage, or the right of poor countries to obtain compensation for the impacts of global warming that they are suffering but did not cause. 

“We urgently need financial mechanisms to address the losses and damages caused by climate change,” he stated. “We cannot continue delaying this debate – we have no more time to lose.”

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