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  1. #Brazil’s election could determine the fate of the #AmazonRainforest

    The next president’s policies on #deforestation will come at a critical moment for the #rainforest ’s survival.

    by Clayton Aldern, Oct 15, 2026

    Excerpt: "Brazilians filling out presidential ballots earlier this month saw three-term incumbent #LuizInácioLulaDaSilva pitted against Senator #FlávioBolsonaro. Environmental observers saw something else: a referendum on the future of the #AmazonRainforest .

    “We are very serious about the risks for the Amazon if #Flávio wins the election, because he is a climate denier,” said Carlos Nobre, a climate scientist currently at the University of São Paulo’s Institute for Advanced Studies. 'If this candidate is elected, certainly deforestation in the Amazon will increase. We are in a very serious situation.'

    "Taken at face value, #Bolsonaro and #Lula would appear to have similar rainforest policies. Lula promises net-zero deforestation by 2030; #Bolsonaro promises zero illegal deforestation by 2029. Legal is the operative term. [#Trump ally] Bolsonaro’s platform argues for an 'agile, modern' environmental licensing process that 'will no longer serve as a way to block those seeking to invest and create jobs.'

    "Monica de Bolle, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, argues a Bolsonaro win would amount to a repeat of his father’s term, which saw an increase in clearing, a plummeting of #environmental infraction notices, and a near doubling of carbon emissions in #Amazonia in 2019 and 2020, compared to the average levels between 2010 and 2018."

    Read more:
    apnews.com/article/brazil-lula

    #Elections2026 #ElectionInterference
    #Brasil #BrazilElections #Rainforest #LulaDaSilva #BrazilPol #WorldPol

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