Black gold, green promises: Brazil's climate paradox

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva thinks so. He is pushing for more oil exploration, including offshore from the Amazon rainforest, while casting himself as a global leader on climate change. "The world is not yet ready to live without oil," Lula, the host of this year's COP30 UN climate conference, told a local podcast. "I am against fossil fuels whenever we can do without them. But until we can, we need to use them. Oil money will help us develop biofuels, ethanol, green hydrogen,...