Lula da Silva's Brazil can't be at once a climate leader and the world's fourth oil exporter, Suely Araujo, a public policy specialist at the environmental NGO Observatorio do Clima, told Al Jazeera.
We arrive at COP28 with our heads held high, Ana Toni, the climate change secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, said during a November 8 news conference.
Still, with world leaders like United States President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping notably absent from COP28, Lula aims to send the message that Brazil can marshal efforts to tackle climate policy and fill the leadership vacuum.
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