Sharm El-Sheikh – Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday (17) during a meeting with the Brazilian civil society at COP27 in Egypt that starting next United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Brazil pavilion will once again bring all Brazilians together, from the public and private sector and the civil society. In recent editions, the civil society had a pavilion that was separate from the Brazilian government pavilion, and so did the Legal Amazon Consortium, which had its own stand.
“This is the last year that a Brazilian comes separate from the government. We’ll once again be one delegation from our beloved Brazil,” Lula said. The next conference, COP28, will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates next November.
During the meeting, Lula said he’ll resume national conferences so that the people help in the decision-making process of public policies that are more appropriate for the youth, people with disabilities, Black people, women, and other minority groups, and that he will recreate the Ministry of Culture and “cultural committees to take culture where it has to be, in the peripheral regions of the country,” he said.
He also said that he wants to see African countries in the UN Security Council and wants to hold a summit in the Americas. “We have never gotten together,” he said.
Indigenous Peoples
In the afternoon, the president-elect met with Indigenous leaders from all continents in the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change.
“At the age of 77, I’m attending one of the most important meetings of my life,” Lula said. He added that he’ll contribute with the Indigenous peoples from all regions in any way he can, taking Indigenous and climate agendas to global meetings. “We want peace, love and tolerance […] and make the policies that need to be done for the Indigenous peoples to live with dignity,” he said.
Lula added he wants to hold the Amazon Summit next year, an event that would bring together all countries of the Amazon region. “We have never gotten together to draft a joint proposal for the world,” he said.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
