President Lula launched measures to combat deforestation, including Phase 5 of Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon, contains five new decrees in the climate area and two decrees for the expansion and creation of Conservation Units.
As President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) reached his first six months in office, Brazil’s opposition-led Congress unleashed an important, yet unsurprising, setback on the new.