Washington, USA.- The US climate envoy John Kerrysaid Wednesday that expects further action from Mexico and Brazil’s next governmentraising hopes of making progress at this month’s summit in Egypt.

Kerry also gave her strongest indication yet that US ready to pledge to compensate poor countries hard hit by climate changeone of the main items on the agenda of COP27.

In Brazil, where the Amazon plays a vital role in offsetting the planet’s carbon emissions, leftist former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva triumphed in Sunday’s election over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaroan agribusiness ally in the jungle.

In his victory speech, Lula promised to work for zero deforestation. “President-elect Lula is committed,” Kerry told reporters in Washington, highlighting Lula’s environmental efforts as president in the first decade of the century.

“Now hopefully we will be able to refine this agenda and move even faster with the reforms needed to try to save the Amazon,” Kerry said.

“Down the Bolsonaro government, unfortunately, the level of deforestation has increased in the Amazon and today it is at high and dangerous levels,” he added.

Kerry insisted he was not turning a “deaf ear” to economic concerns around the world.including in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, noting that many people in the Amazon lived off cattle or felled trees.

“We in the rest of the world are going to have to recognize that if we want to value this great forest, we have to help them to be able to preserve it,” he said.

Kerry, a former Secretary of State and a key architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement, has once again traveled the world in his climate role, most recently visiting Mexico as part of the mobilization efforts ahead of COP27.

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He said he expected more countries to raise their ambitions in the coming days through their so-called Nationally Determined Contributions, plans they put forward under the Paris agreement.

“We will have an important announcement, which President (Andrés Manuel) López Obrador has accepted, regarding what Mexico is going to do now,” Kerry said.

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