"Wooden stakes bearing pictures of young men were driven into the yellow sands of Copacabana beach this week, opposite Rio de Janeiro's swanky hotels on Avenida Atlantica where 300 mayors and their entourages were staying during the C40 World Mayors Summit. Smiling up at the mayors in their hotel suites were photographs of four officers killed in what was the deadliest police raid in Brazilian history, just a few days before the summit."
"A further 117 people were killed in the operation in two of Rio's largest clusters of favelas the Complexo do Alemao and the Complexo da Penha in what the police said was a clampdown on organised crime. The raid attracted timely headlines and even approval for the regional governor, Claudio Castro, an ally of the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, a climate change denier."
Photographs and wooden stakes on Copacabana beach memorialised officers killed in Brazil's deadliest police raid as hundreds of mayors gathered nearby for the C40 World Mayors Summit. The operation killed 121 people across two large favelas, with police describing the action as a clampdown on organised crime and regional authorities receiving public approval. The timing coincided with high-profile climate events including the summit and Prince William's Earthshot prize, while UN warnings confirmed that overshooting the 1.5C Paris target is now inevitable. Populist leaders often emphasise the costs of climate action rather than the consequences of inaction.
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