UN Human Rights Experts and Scientists Urge Brazil’s President to Veto a Law That Would Cut Environmental Reviews

Inside Climate News · By Bob Berwyn · last updated July 30, 2025 – 1:04 AM

The country can’t claim a climate leadership role at COP30 while harming the environment and trampling human rights in the process, they say.

By Bob Berwyn

Independent experts with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday publicly called on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil to veto parts of a new law that would carve giant loopholes in the country’s environmental regulations.

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