"Exuberant," says the New York Times about Lula's return to the global stage.

247 - "Expectations are high as an exuberant Lula speaks at the Climate Summit." stated The New York Times, one of the world's most important newspapers, reported on the participation of Brazil's president-elect in COP27. "Long after other world leaders had left the United Nations climate negotiations in Egypt, Brazil's president-elect arrived – and electrified the meeting," the article highlighted.

"The enthusiasm here was palpable for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known simply as Lula to most. He recently defeated Jair Bolsonaro, a man Brazilian environmentalists describe as a 'nightmare' for presiding over four years of rampant deforestation and lax law enforcement in the country's vast and fragile Amazon rainforest," he continues.

The report highlighted Lula's popularity. It added:

“It was Mr. Lula’s first trip outside Brazil since winning the presidential election in late October, and he built on the optimism many people here feel now that a defender of an ecosystem that is crucial to the global climate is back in power.”

“Mr. Lula’s history of combating deforestation is what gives many of his supporters at the top such high hopes for his next term as president,” the article highlights, noting that:

"When he first became president in 2003, Amazon deforestation was at one of its highest rates ever. By the end of his second term in 2010, the deforestation rate had decreased by 67 percent."

“But under Mr. Bolsonaro, that trend has reversed, and the Amazon has lost more than 13.000 square miles of tree cover from 2019 to 2021, according to the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil,” he continued.

"Brazil had been set to host the annual UN climate summit in 2019, but Mr. Bolsonaro refused to go ahead with it. On Wednesday, Mr. Lula proposed holding the 2025 summit in one of Brazil's Amazonian cities," he recalled. 

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