Brazil Is Key To Biden's Global Climate Ambitions. The Only Problem? Bolsonaro.
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As the U.S. gathers world leaders to discuss big climate actions, it's holding out hope it can get Brazil's far-right president to care about deforestation.
Forty world leaders will attend a virtual climate summit hosted by the United States on Thursday and Friday, but the majority of the focus may fall on just one: Jair Bolsonaro, the climate-change-denying president of Brazil. Bolsonaro has become an international pariah as he has presided over record levels of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since taking office in 2019, and his reputation has only worsened due to his disastrous response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It may seem odd to focus on the one outlier at a conference intended to boost climate ambitions ahead of a larger United Nations climate summit in November. But instead of snubbing Bolsonaro, President Joe Biden has used his first few months in the White House to urge Bolsonaro to reclaim Brazil’s former mantle as a global leader in the fight against climate change.
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