Bringing a message that "Brazil is back" in the fight against global warming, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with climate envoys from China and the United States on Tuesday in Egypt for the COP27 talks, on his first foreign trip since being elected Brazilian president. The leftist, who won his third term last month, is planning a series of meetings with national representatives in which he will outline plans to restore Brazil’s credibility as a partner in global efforts to stem warming, an aide said. In the Oct. 30 vote, Lula defeated President Jair Bolsonaro, who oversaw mounting destruction of the Amazon rainforest and refused to host the 2019 climate summit originally planned for Brazil.
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