Brazil’s Amazon must be protected to reach global climate goal, US envoy says

  BRASILIA --- The world cannot meet its climate goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius unless it protects the Amazon rainforest, climate envoy John Kerry said in Brazil on Tuesday while discussing possible US funding for jungle conservation. Brazil's new President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva assumed office on Jan. 1, jump-starting cooperation with the United States on climate change and deforestation after rocky relations under his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. Deforestation hit a 15-year high under Bolsonaro, who rolled back environmental protections. Lula and US President Joe Biden pledged to work together on climate change in a meeting at...Keep on reading: Brazil’s Amazon must be protected to reach global climate goal, US envoy says

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