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Amazon: Brazilian minister responds to threats from Biden

2020-09-30T15:59:46.471Z


The Brazilian Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, reacted with irony Wednesday, September 30 to the threats of economic sanctions brandished by the Democratic candidate for the White House, Joe Biden, due to deforestation in the Amazon. Read also: US Presidential: the debate between Trump and Biden in five extracts During the very heated first televised debate against President Donald T


The Brazilian Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, reacted with irony Wednesday, September 30 to the threats of economic sanctions brandished by the Democratic candidate for the White House, Joe Biden, due to deforestation in the Amazon.

Read also: US Presidential: the debate between Trump and Biden in five extracts

During the very heated first televised debate against President Donald Trump - climate skeptic like his counterpart Jair Bolsonaro - Biden promised if he won to bring together other countries in aid of 20 billion dollars to help the biggest country in the world. Latin America to curb deforestation.

Here is $ 20 billion.

Stop deforestation.

If you do not do it, there will be significant economic consequences

”, launched the Democratic candidate Tuesday evening during the debate.

Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles reacted wryly on Twitter on Wednesday: "

Just one question, is Biden's $ 20 billion aid per year?"

An ally of the Trump administration, the Bolsonaro government is under international pressure, including from investors worried about the advance of deforestation and the upsurge in fires in the Amazon.

The area of ​​deforested areas increased by 85% over one year in 2019

The area of ​​deforested areas in the largest rainforest on the planet increased by 85% year-on-year in 2019, the far-right president's first year in office.

In the first eight months of 2020, the deforested area has only fallen by 5% compared to the same period last year, and forest fires continue to rage, in the Amazon and the Pantanal.

Read also: US Presidential: Joe Biden resists attacks by Donald Trump during their first debate

Last week, during his speech to the UN General Assembly, President Bolsonaro denounced "

a brutal disinformation campaign

" on the Amazon and the Pantanal.

He also said the fires were started by natives who employed traditional shifting burn techniques, a version refuted by environmentalists and many indigenous leaders, including the iconic cacique Raoni Metuktire.

In Tuesday's debate, Biden, in a favorable position in the polls, vowed that, if elected, the United States would re-accede to the Paris climate agreement.

We will join the Paris agreement because, since we left it (by decision of Donald Trump), look at what is happening.

Everything is falling apart.

The tropical forests of Brazil, which absorb more Co2 than the emissions of the United States, are being devastated,

”he said.

Source: lefigaro

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