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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jonathan Watts

Labour’s David Lammy visits Brazil to build ‘climate justice’ partnership

Head and shoulders shot of David Lammy
David Lammy, pictured in 2020: ‘The global community has been missing the UK being serious about [climate] issues for some time.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

The shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has taken his green diplomatic policy for a test spin in Brazil this month in the hope that “climate justice” can serve as an international rallying cry for a future Labour government.

In an interview with the Guardian, Lammy said a Labour victory at the next general election would allow Keir Starmer to build a partnership for radical climate action with Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, before the UN’s Cop30 climate summit in Belém in 2025.

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