Fire clearings like here in Apui in the south of the state of Amazonas have become increasingly widespread in the recent past.
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In the first days of the COP 27 climate summit, it rained money for rainforest protection. But it is not only in the Amazon that forest promises have all too often been backed by false labeling, as the “Land Gap Report” shows.
EIn a cry of relief, there was no other way to interpret the reactions in the camp of climate and nature conservationists around the world after the narrowest possible vote of the right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil’s president. Much of this week of the Brazilian elections was reminiscent of 2015, the moment when the international community decided in Paris to limit global warming to below two degrees, if possible to 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial level.
“Germany is ready,” said State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth in his Twitter timeline. “The Amazon rainforest is crucial to achieving the 1.5-degree target,” and therefore, according to Flasbarth, as the second-largest donor, they will follow the example of Norway and, after talks with the new President Lula da Silva, those for the Amazon funds that have been frozen for three years – together hundreds of millions of euros. Clearly, like Lula herself, the Amazon rainforest has been given a second chance.