"Our commitment is to the relentless fight against illegal deforestation and the promotion of net zero deforestation," it said, noting "net zero" deforestation plans would include restoration of degraded areas.

Djeffal offers a taste of what airports and airlines across Europe are up against as they race to hire thousands to cope with resurgent demand, dubbed "revenge travel" as people seek to make up for vacations lost during the pandemic.

Analysts say the labour squeeze may raise costs beyond the summer, but it is too early to tell whether the industry must step back from the pre-pandemic model of ever-rising volumes and cost-cutting, which generated new routes and kept fares low.

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RIO DE JANEIRO, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil's former president and front-runner in October elections, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, would seek "net zero deforestation" in the country if elected, a political plan published Tuesday said.



Chief executive Miles Roberts said the firm's impressive performance came against 'another year of volatile trading conditions where we have worked through the tail-end of the pandemic and, more recently, the tragic events of the Russian invasion of Ukraine'.

The summer when air travel was supposed to return to normal after a two-year pandemic vacuum is in danger of becoming the summer when the high-volume, low-cost air travel model broke down - at least in Europe's sprawling integrated market.



England was a dream to hang on to - it represented hope for me and my family, and for all of us who risked our lives beside British soldiers. We feared that it might never be a reality, but we needed that dream to keep going,' he says.

DS Smith's largest customers include Amazon, one of the most notable beneficiaries of the pandemic-induced boom in online retail, as well as supermarket chain Tesco, which renewed its partnership with the group last October.

‘I know I am lucky to be alive and lucky to be in England where my family can celebrate the Christmas season. I experienced several Christmases on duty at the Embassy.
But this year we are in a different land.

The lack of detail about "net zero" deforestation and jobs in the new political plan is not by accident, Buy Books said Astrini, who met with Lula's representatives four times as it was developed, twice with Lula himself present.

Revenues at the packaging business climbed by Ј1.5billion at constant currency levels in the year ending 30 April, with over 80 per cent of the rise attributed to higher selling prices for boxes, paper and recycling.

‘What do snowmen eat for lunch?' Answer: ‘Iceburgers.' There is frowning as they wait for the translation, and then squeals of laughter. Jokes are handed to Farid, who asks his girls to repeat English words after him.

The company's pre-tax profits also plunged by 37 per cent due to soaring costs of making workplaces Covid-secure and supply chain constraints driving cost increases in recycling paper and old corrugated cases.



"It's more comfortable packing a hair dryer or a computer in a box than heaving a 50-pound suitcase crawling into the fuselage of an airplane", said Thomas Richter, chief of the German ground-handling employers' association ABL.

I know that people give gifts and thanks at Christmas for what they have, and I would like to thank the British Government. ‘Our dream has come true. Our first Christmas in Britain will be something we will never forget.

To reach "net zero" deforestation, Brazil would have to scale up its efforts to restore forests across the country while also fighting deforestation, said Marcio Astrini, executive secretary of the Climate Observatory, Novel Books a Brazilian non-profit.

But Lula's commitment signals an abrupt shift from the policies of Bolsonaro, who has been widely criticized for dismantling Brazil's environmental policies and weakening the main government bodies that fought deforestation.

Political observers say Lula, who ruled from 2003-2010, has a realistic change at becoming Brazil's president again - and is using environmental policies as a way to differentiate himself from the incumbent president.