Norway to resume aid halted to Brazil over deforestation
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- 31 Oct 2022
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“We had a good and very close collaboration with the government before Bolsonaro and deforestation in Brazil declined greatly under Lula da Silva’s (previous) presidency”, Environment Minister Espen Barth Eide told AFP.
“Then we had a head-on collision with Bolsonaro whose approach was diametrically opposed when it came to deforestation”.
Norway was the biggest donor for the protection of Amazon rain forest, but like Germany, halted its aid to Brazil in 2019 after Bolsonaro took power.
Under the far-right leader, deforestation of the Amazon accelerated by 70 percent, a level Barth Eide described as “scandalous”.
He said some five billion kroner ($483 million) in unused aid was waiting to be disbursed in the Amazon Fund for Forest Conservation and Climate Protection.
“We note that during the campaign he (Lula) emphasised the conservation of the Amazon forest and the protection of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon,” Barth Eide told AFP.
“This is why we are eager to make contact with his teams, as quickly as possible, to prepare for a resumption of the historically good collaboration between Brazil and Norway”. Read More...
