Climate Politics
Global Cooperation on the Amazon’s Protection Set to Resume Under Lula
- Norway government ready to resume talks to reopen Amazon Fund
- Lula seeks u-turn in Amazon policy to safeguard the rainforest
View of the Amazon rainforest from the city of Manicore to Manaus, Brazil.
Photographer: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Bloomberg
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Norway is ready to resume discussions on financial aid to protect the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, following the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil.
The Scandinavian nation looks forward to discuss with the incoming Brazilian government the steps needed to reopen the Amazon Fund, an international conservation initiative set up with Germany in 2008, Norway Environment Minister Espen Barth said Monday.