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Official portrait of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, released by the Palácio do Planalto in 2023.

Lula calls for US$1.3 trillion a year at COP31 and says rich nations developed at the planet's expense

Satellite view of the Amazon basin in Brazil, showing the Amazon River and the Purus, Madeira and Tapajós tributaries, captured by the MODIS sensor on 23 July 2026.

Norway pledges 600 million kroner to the Amazon Fund after Brazil posts its lowest deforestation rate on record

COP30 president, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, and COP29 president, Mukhtar Babayev, at the conference's opening at Parque da Cidade in Belém, on 10 November 2025.

Brazil presents two COP31 roadmaps on 3 November and hands climate leadership over to Türkiye

Land cleared for crops or cattle near Porto Velho, in the state of Rondônia, in August 2020. Land-use change still accounts for 39% of Brazil's gross emissions.

Brazil's net greenhouse gas emissions fell 9% in 2025, landing 85 million tonnes above its climate target

Land cleared and prepared for cattle or monoculture near Porto Velho, in Rondônia, in August 2020.

Amazon deforestation falls 41.8% to 3,335 sq km, the lowest in the series that began in 1988

An area of forest felled and burned in the rural zone of Apuí, in Amazonas state, in August 2020.

Farming covers 30.5% of the land ringing the Amazon's protected areas, and has grown 561% there in 41 years