Brazil’s president has slashed deforestation in the Amazon and worked to better protect Indigenous people, giving him a generally positive environmental record as he prepares to host COP30 UN climate talks in a month.

However, veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces a strong agribusiness lobby in congress that has tried to weaken environmental laws, and the president has enraged green activists with his support for the expansion of oil exploration.

This is what experts say he is doing right:

– Brazil’s climate comeback –

The 79-year-old has returned to office after years of rampant Amazon deforestation under his climate-sceptic predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.

“Brazil is back,” he declared at COP27 in Egypt shortly after his re-election, receiving a rock star’s welcome as he pledge

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