The person is Madeleine Cuff.
At the COP 27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the president-elect of Brazil was greeted with cheers as he declared "Brazil is back" and ready to lead the world on addressing climate change.
The current president, Jair Bolsonaro, has accelerated the destruction of the Amazon rainforest since he took office.
By the end of the decade, he promised the conference, the Amazon would be free of all forms of destruction. Without a protected Amazon, there is no climate security. We will do everything in our power to have a zero-deficiency of our flora and fauna by the year 2030.
He said that his new administration would put climate change at the center of his policy agenda by cracking down on deforestation, tackling inequality and rolling out renewable energy.
Bolsonaro's government has spent the past four years dismantling environmental regulations and stacking key environmental ministries with military allies.
The president-elect is from Brazil.
Ayman GharABLI of Agence France-Presse is pictured.
The rate of forest loss in the Amazon has increased by 75 per cent under his watch, with scientists warning that the system is close to collapsing.
The level of destruction will stay in the past and will be reversed by the government, promised the former president. He said he would create a ministry of Indigenous and native peoples.
He said that the fight against climate change would have the highest profile in his next government.
Back in Brazil, the Congress is dominated by right-wing parties that will make delivering his promises a challenge.
The president-elect announced a bid to host the COP30 climate summit in an Amazon city in 2025.
He believes that the 30th Congress of the United Nations should be held in the Amazon. The conference should be in that location.
The University of Brasilia's Mercedes Bustamante told journalists at the summit that Brazil is firmly back on the climate agenda thanks to the incoming president's commitment to control deforestation and mediation. The proposal to hold a congress in Brazil clearly shows the changing position of the country.
There will be conditions attached to Brazil'sclimate leadership. Rich countries will need to give more financial support to Brazil and other countries that are taking tougher climate action. He said that we need more resources for a problem that was created by rich countries but is not appreciated by most vulnerable people.
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