Barth Eide met with Minister Marina Silva in Brasília. Both ministers reaffirmed the bilateral partnership on climate and forests, based on the Amazon Fund and the International Climate and Forests Initiative.
The Genetic Resources and Biotechnology unit of Brazil’s agricultural research corporation Embrapa sent to Norway a shipment containing 3,438 genetic samples that will be deposited in the world’s largest seed bank, in Longyearbyen, in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
President Jair Bolsonaro said today (Aug 16) that countries investing in Brazil for environmental preservation are “buying Brazil in installments.” He criticized Norway, which, like Germany, decided to suspend its financial contribution to the Amazon Fund.
Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles met with Ambassadors Nils Martin Gunneng and Georg Witschel, of Norway and Germany, in Brasília on Wednesday (Jul 3) to talk about retaining the Amazon Fund, financed by the two European countries.
The Amazon Fund will receive a donation of $70 million from the government of Norway. According to an announcement made Tuesday (Nov.
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