BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz  Inacio Lula da Silva told Reuters in an interview yesterday  that Brazil is open to adopting targets for greenhouse gas  emissions if rich countries do more to curb climate change.

Lula also said he will veto clauses in an Amazon land  reform bill that would grant companies and non-residents land  titles. The objective of the bill is to legalize land holdings  of millions of people who settled in the Amazon in recent  decades, but environmentalists have criticized it as a land  giveaway that could spur more deforestation.

“We want to be an example to the world in taking care of  our own things,” Lula said.

Global climate talks are scheduled for the end of this year  in Copenhagen. Last year, Brazil announced it would cut  destruction of the Amazon rain forest by 50 percent over the  next decade.