Climate, Egypt, and the Amazon

The best news this year has to offer on the climate front is that the Amazon, which may have been on the brink of irreversible collapse, has got a reprieve thanks to Brazil's new president.

All of COP27's hot air is less important than the single fact that Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva narrowly won the Brazilian presidency last week, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 3, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) opens in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 6 and continues for two weeks, but all that hot air is less important than the single fact that Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva narrowly won the Brazilian presidency on Oct. 31. He...

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