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Brazil's Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Amazon activist Marina Silva as environment minister

The Independent UK

Days before new president, old divisions tearing at Brazil

Trumpets and snares will play Brazil’s national anthem at Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s swearing-in on Jan. 1

The Independent UK

Brazil's Lula promises no deforestation but challenges loom

Brazil's incoming president has promised to eliminate all deforestation by 2030, which would be a complete change of course for Brazil compared to the last four years

The Independent UK

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Brazil's Lula taps 16 ministers ahead of inauguration

Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed 16 ministers just over a week before he takes office

The Independent UK

Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified

The electoral defeat of Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is good news for world’s largest rainforest, but the situation remains perilous

The Guardian - UK

Six months after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered, the Amazon remains unsafe for activists

Activists are cautiously hopeful that the incoming president will bring relief to Bolsonaro’s forest-wrecking administration

The Guardian - US

Brazil's Lula courts U.K., U.S. to join Amazon rainforest protection fund

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is asking Britain, France, the United States and others to donate to an international fund to protect the Amazon rainforest, a bulwark against climate change, Lula advisers said on Tuesday.

Reuters

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Brazil's Lula promises new day for Amazon, crackdown on illegal deforestation, at COP27

President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will step up efforts to fight illegal deforestation - but faces a challenge in delivering environmental protections alongside economic development.

ABC News

At climate summit, Brazil's Lula says deforestation to stop

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is promising to combat deforestation when he assumes office on Jan. 1

The Independent UK

Brazil will be climate leader, says ex-minister Marina Silva

Marina Silva, a former environmental minister, has a message for the U.N. climate summit: Brazil is back when it comes to protecting the Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world that is crucial to staving off the worst effects of climate change

The Independent UK

Lula cheered for new climate policies after Brazil election

Environmentalists, world leaders and sustainable investors on Monday cheered the victory of Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has promised to protect the Amazon rainforest and restore Brazil's leadership on climate change.

Reuters

Lula ally pays tribute to Dom Phillips and vows to protect the Amazon

With Bolsonaro gone, Marina Silva promises to honour murdered environmental activists by ending deforestation

The Guardian - US

Brazil's Lula to send reps to COP27 climate summit after election win

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will send representatives to next month's COP27 United Nations climate summit, allied environmentalist Marina Silva said on Monday, a day after the left-wing former president won a third term.

Reuters

Lula expected to turn to trusted aides for Cabinet posts

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who narrowly won Sunday's election, has been cagey about potential Cabinet choices while on the campaign trail, but some names of trusted allies are expected to be in the new government on Jan. 1.

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Analysis-Brazil's Green New Deal: Lula promises environmental policy overhaul

Brazilian presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is vowing an environmental overhaul of government policy on a scale rivaling the proposed U.S. Green New Deal, according to his senior advisers, campaign documents and Workers Party policy papers.

The Guardian - US

Bolsonaro’s campaign relies on ‘secret budget’ payoffs to win Brazil’s election

The government slush fund, which amounts to about one-fifth of the entire discretionary spending budget, has little or no oversight

The Guardian - US

Brazilian left celebrates election wins for trans and Indigenous candidates

Successes in congress as progressive standard bearer Lula is favourite to defeat Bolsonaro in second round of presidential vote

Salon

The fate of the Amazon at stake

Polls show left-wing former president Lula ousting incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on October 2

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Foreign Policy

The Battle for Brazil’s Evangelicals

After fueling Bolsonaro’s rise, some are flocking to Lula’s camp with earthly—and heavenly—concerns.

Reuters

Brazil environmentalist Silva all-in with Lula against Bolsonaro

Prominent Brazil environmentalist Marina Silva, who was environment minister under ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before breaking with his party, told Reuters she is throwing her full support behind his campaign and did not rule out a role in government if he wins a third term.

The Independent UK

Little talk of rainforest protection in the Brazilian Amazon

Like other Brazilians, residents of the Amazon will elect governors and lawmakers in general elections in October

The Independent UK

Problematic or perilous: Brazil's environmental choice

Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they´ll have a choice between reelecting Jair Bolsonaro, or bringing back former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The Guardian - US

Killing, outrage … impunity: can the Amazon break its cycle of violence?

Before the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, Chico Mendes’ murder in 1988 and Dorothy Stang’s assassination in 2005 shook Brazil

The Independent UK

Lula platform has green focus, nods to middle in Brazil race

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has laid out his campaign platform, including a pledge for zero deforestation initiatives and appeals to moderates as seeks to unseat Jair Bolsonaro in the October election

Reuters

Brazil front-runner Lula shores up party alliances for October election

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told allies on Thursday he aims to represent a seven-party center-left coalition in his challenge to incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in this October's election.

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