Lula's message at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey: Brazil shouldn't show up to climate talks feeling small. His claim is that no country or authority carries more weight on climate and environmental issues, and no Brazilian has reason to walk into those meetings with their head down. The zero-deforestation pledge, as he frames it, was made to Brazil's own conscience rather than to the world, and he says multiple roadmaps for the path forward are ready. He also argues no nation shows more courage on popular participation, and predicts Brazil will end up the most serious country on environmental defense. Then the challenge: he wants the leaders of wealthy nations to show up, naming Trump, Macron, Germany, France and Portugal, the countries that used to set the rules for others. Fr, that's a direct callout, for now