Can Lula save the Amazon — and the climate?
By DW
17 November 2022 |
7:12 am
Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has promised "zero deforestation" in the Amazon. Can he gather enough support at COP27 to preserve the "lungs of the planet."
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