Brazilian president-elect pledges ‘big fight against deforestation’

FILE – An area of forest on fire near a logging area in the Transamazonica highway region, in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 17, 2022. Marina Silva, a former senator and environmental minister, has a message for the U.N. climate summit: Brazil is back when it comes to protecting the Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world that is crucial to staving off the worst effects of climate change. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vowed to fight deforestation as he made a series of public appearances and attended meetings at the UN climate summit in Egypt.

Mr da Silva, who in the past year has made an extraordinary political comeback after being convicted of corruption and jailed a few years ago, was one of the events that brought the most energy at the Cop27 conference.