Dave Harmon, PW editor
- Nov 2, 2021
- 1 min read

Climate Summit: Brazil pledges to end deforestation by 2028, but Bolsonaro's absence casts doubt

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil, a global climate leader turned environmental villain under President Jair Bolsonaro, approached the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow ready to prove it was changing course, with commitments to create a green jobs program, cut carbon emissions and curb deforestation.

But even as John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy, said on Twitter that those steps added “crucial momentum” to combating climate change, environmentalists argued that the plans lacked ambition and the details that would make them credible.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/world/americas/brazil-climate.html

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