Governor Eduardo Braga of Amazonas, Brazil

Governor Eduardo Braga has enjoyed a very successful career as mayor of Manaus, and congressman at the federal and state levels. He is currently in his second four-year term as Governor of Amazonas State. He is a leading Brazilian politician who was recently awarded the title of 'Environmental Personality of the Year' (2007), after enacting the first Brazilian state-level legislation on climate change. At the 2007 UNFCCC ‘Kyoto Protocol’ conference in Bali, Governor Braga’s state joined the Indonesian Green Governors in a pact to prevent deforestation and degradation in their provinces for the good of the planet.