Brazil’s newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made a speech about preserving the largest rainforest on Earth, the Amazon. During the last 50 years, more than 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed to make way for farms and towns. However, in his speech, Lula promis...
In a speech to the UN in September 2003 marking Tuvalu's 25 years of independence, then prime minister Saufatu Sopo'aga told the general assembly that his people lived 'in constant fear of the adverse impacts of climate change', and were 'deeply dismayed that key industrialised nations do ...