Future chancellor says Itamaraty will have Climate Secretariat

Itamaraty will have private secretariat to deal with environmental issuessaid future Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira in an interview with GloboNews.

Adherence to the environmental agenda was one of the campaign promises of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).

It will also be a very important issue in foreign policy. In fact, I am thinking of establishing a secretariat within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that will be responsible for climate, environment and energy. To solve these problems jointly
Future Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira

A ministry’s secretariats are top-level bodies accountable only to the minister and secretary-general of each portfolio. Mauro did not specify who should lead the new secretariat.

Immediately after Lula’s election, environmentalists were optimistic about the new government’s promises. Experts predict that Bolsonaro’s government is such an environmental disaster that the prospects for 2023 are positive, no matter how difficult the budget and legal requirements.

Mauro Vieira also claims to have received other “tasks” from Lula:

• Brazil, which is a candidate to host the 2025 Climate Summit (COP30), which should be in Latin America;
• Bring Brazil closer to South America and Latin America as well as reposition Africa as a foreign policy priority.

The world’s expectations from Brazil. A year before the election, Lula met with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss environmental issues. In the United States, American President Joe Biden sees Lula as an opportunity to move forward on top of his agenda, such as climate change.

Lula attended a meeting with US special envoy John Kerry at COP27 in Egypt in November. The two discussed future US aid for Amazon’s conservation efforts.