Colombian President Gustavo Petro told CNN Brasil this Tuesday (8) that the leadership of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is “fundamental” to help preserve the Amazon rainforest.
“Brazil’s presence is fundamental in an issue that is absolutely strategic in the fight against climate change”, added the Colombian president.
He also said that he hopes to meet soon with the president-elect of Brazil and regretted the lack of an agenda so far for the meeting between the two.
In his speech at the summit of world leaders attending COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Petro launched the idea of creating an alliance involving Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru and the United States to preserve the Amazon.
The first left-wing president elected in Colombia, Petro defends a strong environmental preservation agenda. In his speech, he called for a total end to the world’s dependence on fossil fuels and claimed that all climate conferences so far had been a total failure.
Shortly before talking to CNN Brasil, Petro received the presidents of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and Suriname, Chan Santokhi, at the Colombian stand at COP27.
The three countries, as well as Brazil and five other nations, share parts of the Amazon rainforest. During the conversation between the three, Petro made other references to Lula, praising the president-elect.
Upon his arrival in Sharm el-Sheik, Maduro said he had also proposed to Lula and Petro a strategic alliance between Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia for the preservation of the Amazon.
A report by the NGO Clima 21, from September this year, however, shows that Venezuela is the country that most deforested the forest in the period between 2016 and 2021 – during the Maduro government.
Coincidentally, Colombia’s stand is opposite Brazil’s official stand at COP27. Maduro and Petro did not visit the Brazilian representation.
Brazil is being represented at COP27 by a delegation headed by the Minister of the Environment, Joaquim Leite, who will arrive in Egypt next week for a meeting with other ministers in the area.
Source: CNN Brasil

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