US asks Brazil for ‘immediate’ action on Amazon


A forest fire rages in the town of Porto Velho, state of Rondonia, Amazonia, Brazil, on September 9, 2019. In the 12 months to August 2020, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased 9.5%, destroying an area bigger than Jamaica, according to government data. – EPA pic, April 17, 2021.

THE United States yesterday welcomed Brazil’s renewed promise to end illegal deforestation but urged immediate action to protect the Amazon, a major factor in global climate change.

Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime scourge of environmentalists, in a letter to President Joe Biden ahead of next week’s US-led climate summit voiced support for a previous Brazilian goal of stopping illegal deforestation by 2030.


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