Brazil’s new president is a far-right climate-sceptic who has threatened to withdraw his country from the Paris Agreement, cut renewables subsidies, increase oil production and open up the Amazon to heavy industry and mining. Yet the Brazilian renewables industry is celebrating his election.
Jair Bolsonaro, dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics” by local media and described as a “fanatic” in The Washington Post, supported the 1964-85 military dictatorship, backed its torture of opposition figures, and has made inflammatory derogatory comments against women, black people, the LGBT community, foreigners and Brazil’s indigenous population.
