Brazil’s new Environment Minister, Marina Silva, knows how to get her way. Even against the president, if need be. Shortly before Christmas, Brazil’s newly elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT) offered her the position of head of the climate action department in his government. She declined – she wanted to be a minister, she is reported to have said. With that, she got her way: On January first, the new government under Lula was inaugurated, and Marina Silva of the REDE party (Rede Sustentabilidade, sustainability network) is the new environment minister.