BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s environment and climate change minister, Marina Silva, said on Wednesday she intends to create a post that will act as an authority for climate change within her ministry by March.
At an event to officially take office, Silva announced that a special secretary to fight deforestation would also be created, as well as a climate change council that will be led by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva himself.
(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Editing by Sarah Morland)
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