{"id":50386982,"date":"2023-12-19T18:46:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogochino.net\/?p=386982"},"modified":"2024-01-23T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T09:46:58","slug":"386760-el-primer-ano-de-lula-termina-con-resultados-ambientales-desiguales-brasil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/es\/clima\/386760-el-primer-ano-de-lula-termina-con-resultados-ambientales-desiguales-brasil\/","title":{"rendered":"El primer a\u00f1o de Lula termina con resultados ambientales desiguales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On 1 December, Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva posed with around 130 other world leaders for the official photo of the UN\u2019s COP28 climate conference in Dubai. With Brazil set to host COP30 in the Amazonian city of Bel\u00e9m in 2025, Lula was one of only four given the privilege to speak at the summit\u2019s opening, and used his address<\/a> to tell delegates that \u201cthe planet is fed up with unfulfilled climate agreements\u201d. It is time, he said, to \u201cwork towards an economy less dependent on fossil fuels\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

That same day, Brazil also took over the temporary presidency of the G20, the forum of the world\u2019s largest economies. Lula has said<\/a> that the country\u2019s one-year mandate will serve to motivate its members to commit to a just energy transition.<\/p>\n\n

However, the day also saw the Brazilian government confirm that it will join OPEC+, a coalition of oil producing nations allied with the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Rounding off an eventful 24 hours, the president of the country\u2019s state oil firm Petrobras announced<\/a> that it hopes to open a subsidiary in Saudi Arabia, after having also announced its intention to open a venture in China<\/a>, the biggest consumer of Brazilian oil.<\/p>\n\n

The contradictory events of the day were far from isolated incidents in the first year of Lula\u2019s government. Although the climate agenda has gained new impetus after the destructive, denialist administration of Jair Bolsonaro (2019\u20132022), Lula\u2019s discourse on fighting global warming has often been at odds with his government\u2019s actions. Analysts have also described some of its announced policies as vague or insufficient to tackle climate change and the country\u2019s socio-environmental challenges.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cBrazil is really going to have to make up its mind,\u201d M\u00e1rcio Astrini, executive director of the Climate Observatory, a Brazilian climate science network, told Di\u00e1logo Chino. \u201cYou can\u2019t lead a climate agenda that needs to attack fossil fuels and, at the same time, join the oil club. You can\u2019t have both at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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Astrini said that although oil is a priority issue, especially for a country hosting a COP, it is a relatively new one on the Brazilian environmental agenda, which has historically been focused on protecting forests. In 2023, it was no different: as early as 1 January, the newly inaugurated President Lula promised<\/a> to bring deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon to zero, with the region suffering from galloping rates<\/a> of forest loss. During Bolsonaro\u2019s term in office, there was a 60% increase in deforestation in the biome compared to the previous period, from 2014 to 2018, shared between presidents Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer, according to analysis by the System for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions<\/a> (SEEG) platform. This was the biggest increase in a single presidential term since measurements began in 1988.<\/p>\n\n