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Brazil’s Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

by Segun Ogunlade December 30, 2022
written by Segun Ogunlade December 30, 2022
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In what is an indication that the new administration In Brazil will prioritize cracking down on illegal deforestation in the forest even if it means running afoul of powerful agribusiness interests, the president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be country’s next minister of the environment.

Both attended the recent U.N. climate conference in Egypt, where Lula promised cheering crowds “zero deforestation” in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and a key to fighting climate change, by 2030.

Silva told the news network Globo TV shortly after the announcement that the name of the ministry she will lead will be changed to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.

Many agribusiness players and associated lawmakers resent Silva. That stems from her time as environment minister during most of Lula’s prior presidency, from 2003 to 2010.

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Lula also named Sonia Guajajara, an Indigenous woman, as Brazil’s first minister of Indigenous peoples, and Carlos Fávaro, a soybean producer, as agriculture minister.

Silva was born in the Amazon and worked as a rubber tapper as an adolescent.

As environment minister, she oversaw the creation of dozens of conservation areas and a sophisticated strategy against deforestation with major operations against environmental criminals and new satellite surveillance.

She also helped design the largest international effort to preserve the rainforest, the mostly Norway-backed Amazon Fund. Deforestation dropped dramatically.

Story was adapted from AP.

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