If Luis Inácio Lula da Silva keeps his campaign promises to safeguard the Amazon rainforest, analysts say, Brazil could have a major impact on climate change, after years of accelerating deforestation under President Jair Bolsonaro.
Manoela Machado, an ecologist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center who studies fire prevention in the Amazon.
But Lula faces a tremendous challenge, given the scope and impact of policies passed under Bolsonaro and the accumulated damage, analysts and activists say. Environmentalists say he has emboldened criminals by siding with those who want to exploit resources for economic gain, assailing the institutions charged with protecting the rainforest and its Indigenous communities and permitting illegalSome analysts warn that a bloc of lawmakers with ties to agriculture could try to block Lula’s environmental policies and pass legislation to facilitate land-grabbing and illegal mining.
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