'The nightmare is due to end at last,' said one climate advocate of right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro's electoral loss.
"Brazil is ready to resume its leading role in the fight against the climate crisis, protecting all our biomes, especially the Amazon forest."
Lula pledged to reverse the damage done by Bolsonaro, who has pushed miners and other industrial interests to develop in the Amazon. In the four years since Bolsonaro took office, deforestation hasDuring his campaign, the president-elect said he plans to restore funding to the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources , the federal agency which protects the rainforest from extractive industries, following Bolsonaro's weakening of environmental enforcement.
"Let's fight for zero deforestation," Lula said in his first speech as president-elect."Brazil is ready to resume its leading role in the fight against the climate crisis, protecting all our biomes, especially the Amazon forest... We will resume monitoring and surveillance of the Amazon, and combat any and all illegal activity—whether mining, logging, or improper agricultural occupation.
Under Bolsonaro and his right-wing Liberal Party, the amount of forest that was cleared in 2021 was the largest annual figure in more than a decade.
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