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Brazil this week began the first operations against Amazon deforestation since veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office, the Ibama environmental agency said Friday.

On the campaign trail before his October election victory — when he defeated far right climate change skeptic Jair Bolsonaro — Lula promised to end deforestation by 2030.

Average Amazon deforestation soared by 75 percent during Bolsonaro’s presidency, compared with the previous decade. He also said he wanted to arrange a meeting with the other South American countries that share the Amazon to discuss a continental preservation policy.

 

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