Lula's Plan to End Amazon Deforestation and Boost Climate Action in Brazil

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has unveiled a plan to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon, with a roadmap to achieve the ambitious goal of halting illegal deforestation by 2030. Lula’s administration also pledged to achieve net zero deforestation by restoring native vegetation stocks as compensation for legal vegetation removal. Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with almost 3% of global emissions, and almost half of Brazil’s carbon emissions come from deforestation. Lula announced his government would readjust Brazil’s international commitments to cut emissions back to what was promised in 2015 during the Paris Agreement. The new measures mark the fifth phase of a large initiative called the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon.