Brazil environment minister vows results on deforestation

Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles offers an interview to AFP at his office in Brasilia, on August 4, 2020. — AFPFending off accusations of using his post to dismantle protections of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s environment minister promised Wednesday in an interview to deliver results on slowing deforestation by the end of the year.

“The first step, which can be achieved in the second half of this year, is to stop the increase in deforestation,“ he told AFP. Exacerbating the situation, the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands - a region situated just south of the Amazon and stretching from Brazil into Paraguay and Bolivia - had a record 1,684 fires last month, triple the number from July 2019.Salles faced intense criticism in April when a video recording was made public of a Bolsonaro cabinet meeting at which he said the coronavirus pandemic was an opportunity to roll back regulations “now that the media’s only talking about Covid.

The Bolsonaro administration has been at pains recently to show a more aggressive stance on deforestation, particularly after international investment funds controlling $4 trillion in capital threatened to pull out of the country over the issue. He repeated his criticism of wealthy countries that have dragged their feet on implementing emissions trading schemes set out in the Paris climate accord, which could be a lucrative market for Brazil.

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