In 2023, we have many opportunities to build a better future

Next year will be a turning point for the Amazon rainforest, artificial intelligence and even our diet.Choose a more hopeful direction for humanity

Each year feels like a new beginning, but as we explore in this issue, many events set in 2023 feel like an opportunity for humanity to choose a more hopeful future.

Even the first day of the year will mark a significant turning point, with Luis Inacio Lula da Silva taking office as President of Brazil. He will replace Jair Bolsonaro, who over the past four years has overseen the destruction of the Amazon rainforest at a pace not seen in decades. Lula is committed to halting and reversing this devastation, and political leaders in other regions increasingly understand the need to protect trees (see …).