Ex-Chancellor Figueiredo is appointed ambassador for climate – 02/17/2023 – Environment
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this Friday (17th) the nomination of former foreign minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado as extraordinary ambassador for climate change, the Itamaraty said in a note.
Figueiredo headed the ministry in the government of former president Dilma Rousseff, from 2013 to 2014. According to the folder, Figueiredo “should complement the high-level representation of Brazil in international events, as well as contribute to the dissemination of Brazilian engagement in the fight against change of the climate”.
In January, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and the Governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho (MDB), announced that Belém was launched as a candidate to host COP30, the 2025 edition of the UN climate conference (Organization of Nations United). The intention is to bring the world’s largest forum on climate change to the Amazon.
Lula had already announced his intention to host the COP30 in some Amazonian city during his visit to COP27, in Egypt, in November 2022, on his first international trip as president-elect. At the event, in his first speech to the world after winning the second round, the PT said that the climate agenda would be central to the government.
By rule, each year the conference takes place on a different continent. Brazil was a candidate to host the last Latin COP, in 2019, but, when Bolsonaro withdrew from the candidacy, the presidency went to Chile. Due to the protests that occupied the streets of Santiago that year, however, the event took place in Spain
The decision on where the COP30 will be held still depends on the decision of the UN.
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