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ALERT TO DEFORESTATION IN AMAZONAND BLOCKED SUBSIDIES |
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The Amazon Fund's donors are blocking their donations in turn: they say they are afraid of galloping deforestation because of Jair Bolsonaro's policy. Also Norway, pioneer in the ecological fight, announced through its Minister of Environment and Climate announced Thursday, August 15, blocking 30 million euros of subsidies to Brazil.  "Brazil has broken the agreement with Norway and Germany since the country suspended the board and technical committee of the fund for the Amazon," said Ola Elvestuen in the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv (DN ). Oslo donated no less than 8.3 billion crowns (828 million euros) each year to this fund for the Amazon, created in 2008, but, according to the Norwegian government, Brazil does not seem to "want to stop the deforestation ". In support of the official figures: deforestation in July was four times higher in the same month in 2018. Norway, which believes that the Brazilian government can not "do this without Norway and Germany agree Said Minister Elvestuen. Since the rise to power of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, the German government has also announced Saturday suspending some of its grants. Berlin has thus blocked 35 million euros until the deforestation figures become encouraging again, while continuing to contribute to the Fund for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest. Bolsonaro said his country did not "need" German subsidies. The Brazilian president insists he will not give in to "environmental psychosis" and that "the Amazon is ours, not you ». |
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| Kelly Donaldson for DayNewsWorld | |
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