Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva offered ambitious plan for future of Amazon forest, promising to repair damage done by Jair Bolsonaro
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vowed to haul the Amazon out of centuries of violence, economic “plundering” and environmental devastation and into “a new Amazon dream” at the start of a major regional summit on the world’s largest rainforest.
Addressing South American leaders gathered in the Brazilian city of Belém, Lula offered a bold blueprint for the future of the Amazon, a sprawling 6.7m sq km region that is home to nearly 50 million people spread across eight countries and one territory.
