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The outlook for Brazil’s new presidential administration

2023; Elsevier BV; Volume: 38; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.tree.2023.01.002

1872-8383

Philip M. Fearnside,

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Carlos Peres and colleagues [1] give a good overview of the environmentally disastrous 4 years of the Jair Bolsonaro presidential administration (2019–2022), the hope of a new dawn for Brazilian Amazonia under the 2023–2026 administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as ‘Lula’), and the resistance he is likely to face from a strongly antienvironmental National Congress and hostility to environmental measures from the population in the most-heavily deforested parts of Amazonia. In addition to these challenges, it is important to remain mindful of the potential for the incoming administration itself to promote damaging projects and to shy away from needed but politically unpopular environmental measures.