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#Brazil Says It’s A #Climate Leader. Not Everyone Buys It.

@jakespring.bsky.social and Marina Dias report for
@washingtonpost.com

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Brazil says it’s a climate leader. Not everyone buys it.

Brazil wanted the U.N. summit to make it a leader on climate, despite signing off on oil drilling near the Amazon and gutting environmental permit law.

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November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM

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I spent a few days up near the Boundary Waters - America’s most visited wilderness area - meeting with people trying to protect it from a proposed mine, as well as some mining supporters. Trump and some Republicans are aggressively trying to make the mine happen. wapo.st/4pN2VfE

A new generation rallies to preserve the Boundary Waters wilderness

The Trump administration is moving rapidly to approve a mine next to the Boundary Waters that many fear will pollute the pristine wilderness area.

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September 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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No real surprise here
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Lula expected to announce Brazil's top climate diplomat as COP30 president

Brazil is expected to announce on Tuesday that ambassador Andre Correa do Lago will be president of the 2025 COP30 global climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem, three people with knowledge of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's plans told Reuters.

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January 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM

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Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was 'never a promise'
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Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was 'never a promise'

The world's largest meatpacker, JBS, became in 2021 the first of its peers to commit to cutting or offsetting all its emissions by 2040, and to ending illegal deforestation across its long supply chain that starts in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

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January 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Soybean farmer lobby Aprosoja-MT says the Brazil Amazon soy moratorium - which forbids buying soybeans grown on recently deforested land - fosters "a purchasing cartel" and has asked antitrust regulator CADE to end it www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Brazil farmer lobby asks to lift soybean ban from deforested Amazon rainforest

A farmers' lobby in Brazil is seeking to end a two-decade-long agreement that forbids grain traders from buying soybeans from farms on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, claiming the deal has created an uneven playing field.

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December 12, 2024 at 1:07 PM

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They have a deal! At long last the European Union and South America's Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia Paraguay) strike an agreement on their long awaited free trade deal.

EU and South America strike trade deal:
www.reuters.com/world/eu-mer...