Brazil's newly nominated head of the planned 2025 COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement would cast a shadow over the talks.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused the country’s supreme court of persecuting him on Saturday after his appeal against a travel ban was rejected.
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro says he is the victim of political persecution as he accompanied his wife to the airport to board a flight to represent him at U.S.
Brazil warned Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement would have a major impact on COP30 talks to be held in the Amazon in November.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he hoped the United States would remain a "historical partner" of his country after Donald Trump's return to the White House Monday.
The United States withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is a blow to global cooperation on climate change, but other countries are marching ahead and stepping up leadership on the issue. China is dominating the clean energy race,
Lula’s government downplayed the remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump, who stated on his inauguration day that the United States does not need Brazil.
Brazil’s Supreme Court barred former President Jair Bolsonaro from leaving the country to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington on Monday.
The governor of Brazil's largest farm state Mato Grosso said on Monday he would veto a state bill that sought to weaken protections for endangered biomes inside state borders, following broad criticism from climate activists.
This isn’t just the story of Donald Trump , but also that of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. The Western Hemisphere’s two largest democracies faced similar challenges in 2020 and 2022, respectively, but their institutional responses have been dramatically different.
"AGU and other ministries understand that the current terms of use, as well as the changes now informed by Meta, do not fit with Brazil's legislation and are not sufficient to protect fundamental rights," it added. Brazil will hold a public hearing later this week to discuss the topic with experts.
The export volume also reached unprecedented levels, with 40.7 million tons of products shipped to the United States—an increase of 9.9 percent compared to 2023.