Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the outcome of the 2022 presidential election in Brazil on the UK’s climate ambitions for COP27 in Egypt.

The UK and Brazil have been working together increasingly closely on climate and nature. Both our countries committed to the Glasgow Climate Pact at COP26: we need to deliver on our climate and biodiversity pledges. At COP26 the UK committed £300 million to help protect the rainforest throughout the Amazonian biome through the International Climate Finance Programme. We welcomed Brazil's commitments to eliminate illegal deforestation by 2028 and restore 18 million hectares of forest by 2030. The UK looks forward to engaging with Brazil at COP27 and to working with this Brazilian government and the next to protect Earth's natural resources.