The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, entered the list of the 100 most influential people of 2023, formulated and released this Thursday by Time magazine.
Lula da Silva shares the list with the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, as well as other leaders such as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. , and King Carlos III.
In a brief profile, Time magazine highlighted that Lula da Silva, after years of state-sanctioned environmental degradation and destruction in Brazil, had chosen a new path to choose this climate issue as two central points of his third term, which began on 1 from January.
“As president, Lula has promised to strengthen Brazil’s position in the world, renewing the country’s commitment to democracy, justice and economic equity. But in no other area can it have a more significant impact than in the twin crises of climate and biodiversity”, highlights the profile of Lula da Silva in the magazine, signed by Al Gore, former vice president of the United States and founder and president of the Reality Project. climate.
“Brazil is home to one of the most important natural wonders of our planet: the Amazon rainforest. After many years of increasing deforestation and forest fires, the Amazon is being transformed from a carbon sink to a net source of emissions. The President Lula has promised to protect the Amazon, and has done so before, reducing deforestation by 72% in his previous term,” he added.
The profile concluded by arguing that combating forest loss and accelerating the transition to clean energy in Brazil make Lula da Silva’s leadership “fundamental in this decisive decade for climate action.”
In 2011, former president Dilma Rousseff made Time’s list of the 100 most influential. Former President Jair Bolsonaro was named Time’s 2021 Person of the Year, describing him as a “controversial leader.”
Source: TSF
