Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are on an official visit to Brazil. The French president is in Brazil to promote joint projects in the environment and defense.

Lula and Macron talk regularly and on this trip they are the image of harmony. The relationship between Lula's government and Brazil's government is opposite of that it had with his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, writes Agnes Poirier-Bruno. She says Lula supports investments in the Amazon and his government is interested in creating a carbon market that serves to protect forests.