Statement was made while Janja addressed the importance of placing the gender issue at the center of debates on climate change
The first lady of Brazil, Janja Lula da Silva, made a Portuguese error during an interview with CNN, at COP30, in Belém. He said “We are actors”. The correct thing would be “we are actresses”.
Janja’s gaffe happened while she was talking about the importance of putting gender at the center of debates on climate change.
HERRING is HUMAN.
Disposed of citizens” “open” “problem” and “inresponsibility”, it is the turn of the ACTORS.And we are the ones who did not receive an education award.
— Elise Wilshaw (@WilshawElise)
Janja is special envoy for Women at the Conference: “I have worked hard to put women at the center of the climate agenda. More than participants, we are actors [sic] of climate change”said the first lady.
This that Janja commits such a mistake. In 2024, the first lady in Central Park, in New York (USA), to ask for help in fighting hunger. However, Janja was wrong to make a call to “global citizens” – the correct one is “citizens”.
Another episode of grammatical error also occurred in 2024, when Janja spoke “open” during the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty at Columbia University in New York.
In her speech, the First Lady stated: “I always say that we had followed a path, we had opened [sic] that path”. The correct option in this case would have been to use the participle “open”.
