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"Brazilian environmentalists have celebrated a timely victory after the
country’s supreme court ruled for the reactivation of the Amazon Fund, a major
weapon in the country’s fight against deforestation.
The fund was paralysed in 2019 when far-right president Jair Bolsonaro wound up
two of its key committees, citing unspecified irregularities.
Thursday’s ruling orders authorities to reactivate the fund within 60 days and
will allow Brazil’s state development bank to start using the more than 3
billion reais, or £525m, that has been stuck in its coffers since 2019.
“The Amazon Fund is the biggest fund for the protection of forests ever
created,” said Tasso Azevedo, one of its architects and now technical
coordinator for the Climate Observatory, a Brazilian NGO.
“The losses through its paralysis over these (almost) four years is
irreplaceable but its reactivation is more than urgent and enables us to start
protecting the forest, promote sustainable development and fight deforestation
again.”
The organisation said its return would allow not just for the funding of
environment and ecology programs across the Amazon but also give the government
resources to use in rebuilding the organisations hollowed out by the Bolsonaro
regime.
It also gave a lift to the president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who beat
Bolsonaro in a run-off election on 30 October, and has promised to roll back
much of the far-right leader’s anti-environmental policies."
Via
Future Crunch issue 191:
https://futurecrunch.com/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
