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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Can Lula fix the Amazon?
Description: Podcast: The Real Story (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Can Lula fix the Amazon?Pub date: 2023-02-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBrazil’s newly-elected president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has pledged to protect the Amazon and to reach zero deforestation by 2030. During a recent meeting with US President Biden, Lula said the rainforest had been "invaded" under the previous administration. His predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, relaxed environmental protections, encouraging mining and logging in the Amazon that he said would help...