COP27 and what Brazil’s new president could mean for the Amazon

Sky News ClimateCast returns with climate journalist and broadcaster, Tom Heap. This week, Tom looks at the big stories from the COP27 summit in Egypt where Rishi Sunak promised continued support, but no extra UK funding, for conserving forests around the world. A group of 25 countries said they’d hold each other accountable to stick to a pledge to end deforestation by the end of the decade. Although not part of that group, Brazil’s incoming president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva did attend COP to discuss new ways of protecting forests with world leaders. Tom is joined by Dr Alexander Lees, Senior Lecturer in Tropical Ecology at Manchester Metropolitan University, who has worked on Amazon conservation issues for 20 years. They discuss potential “new hope” for the lungs of the planet, whether that international deadline can be met and how choices closer to home can impact the scale of deforestation. Podcast producers: Emma Rae Woodhouse, Soila Apparicio, Anne Marie BullockEditor: Paul Stanworth