EU Must Use Full Toolkit to Counter Amazon Fires, Finland Says
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The European Union should use “all tools” at its disposal to bring the fires raging in the Amazon jungle to a halt, Finland said.
The Nordic nation, which currently holds the rotating six-month presidency of the bloc, sent a letter dated Tuesday to Federica Mogherini, the EU high representative on foreign affairs. It said the EU should urgently assess how it can use foreign and trade policy as means to stop the trend of deliberate forest fires and burn clearing in Brazil that threaten to accelerate climate change.