Brazil wants more from COP26 than it is willing to give
The government’s green rhetoric in Glasgow clashes with inaction at home
BRAZIL USED to be one of the main protagonists in global climate talks, its politicians and wonks proposing all sorts of new-fangled ways to boost greenery. No longer. This week Jair Bolsonaro, the beleaguered president, decided to eat gnocchi with distant relatives in northern Italy rather than attend COP26, the UN climate conference in Glasgow. “Everyone would throw stones at him,” explained Hamilton Mourão, the vice-president.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “From hero to villain”
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