The amount, Brazil expected to be obtained from wealthy nations, like the US, which organized the Leaders’ Summit on Climate on Thursday (Apr. 22).
Brazilian chancellor Ernesto Araújo wrote that “dialogue and cooperation on environment and climate will be yet another aggregating element in Brazil–US ties we are continuing to build.”
Brazil’s National Space Research Institute (Inpe) found the deforested areas in the Amazon amounted to 9,762 km² from August 2018 to July 2019. The area of deforested native vegetation expanded 29.54 percent from the previous period, August 2017 to July 2018.
Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said Wednesday (Oct 9) that the oil that has polluted a number of beaches on the coast of Brazil’s Northeast comes “very likely” from Venezuela.