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Brazil names a senior executive from the auto industry as climate champion

Brazil announced Wednesday that Dan Ioschpe, a former executive of the auto industry who represented Brazil at the G20 Summit last year in business meetings, has been nominated as its "climate ambassador" for the United Nations climate summit 2025, also known as COP30. The country will host the summit in November.

He will work for the Brazilian diplomat Andre Correa do Lago as the president of the conference to encourage and negotiate voluntary initiatives by the business community to reduce global warming. Former climate champions include environmentalists, government officials, and members of development finance.

Simon Stiell is the Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in a press release about the appointment.

Ioschpe serves as the chairman of Iochpe-Maxion in Sao Paulo, an auto parts manufacturer, and on the boards of Brazilian companies such as Embraer, the planemaker.

He was also the chair of B20, an international business forum which fosters dialogue among corporate and government leaders in the G20 group, the major global economies of which Brazil presided over last year. (Reporting and writing by Lisandra paraguassu, Editing by Brad Haynes & Stephen Coates).

(source: Reuters)