Twenty days before COP30 in Brazil, Petrobras was authorized to search for oil at sea off the Amazon.
Analysis: Brazil's environmental authorities approved oil exploration off the Amazon on Monday. This decision exposes President Lula's contradictions on climate change.
A Petrobras oil platform in Rio de Janeiro, July 3, 2015. MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP
There are better ways to prepare for a COP. On Monday, October 20, exactly twenty days before the opening of the Belem Climate Change Conference , the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), under pressure from President Lula , approved an oil exploration project off the coast of the Amazon.
The license, granted to the state-owned company Petrobras, covers the drilling of a deepwater exploration well in the Foz do Amazonas region, 500 km from the mouth of the Amazon River. The project is to begin "immediately," the oil giant announced in a press release. During…
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