Brazil's Lula to put climate at center of first post-election speech abroad
Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva got a warm welcome at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt on Wednesday, where he was to make his first speech abroad since being elected as the Amazon nation’s next president.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate diplomacy: COP 27
The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) produced a groundbreaking agreement to create a “loss and damage” fund to help developing nations cope with the impact of climate change.
But the conference, held from Nov. 6 to Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, fell short of a hoped-for agreement to speed reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.