Do not trust Brazil's 'greenwashing' promises, say Amazon activists

[Judi Lynn]

Campaigners warn Brazil may make empty promises at Cop26 to gain access to conservation money



Fire burning through Amazon rainforest.

Satellites show that deforestation in the Amazon is at its highest level since 2012. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images

Jonathan Watts
@jonathanwatts
Mon 1 Nov 2021 07.00 EDT

Amazon forest defenders are urging delegates at Cop26 not to trust the “greenwashing” promises of Jair Bolsonaro’s government, which has wreaked havoc on the environment over the past three years.

Brazil will field one of the biggest delegations at the UN climate talks in Glasgow and fund a lavish promotional pavilion inside the conference centre. According to the agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias, and the environment minister, Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, the message is that Brazil is “a longtime champion of the environmental agenda and an agrifood powerhouse”.

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Suely Vaz, a former head of the environment regulator Ibama who now works for the Climate Observatory, said the Brazilian government had gutted forest protection agencies and tried to change the law in favour of farmers and land grabbers.

“Nowadays Brazil has an anti-environmental policy. They are paralysing everything. Deforestation and forest fires are out of control. This must change to ensure that climate money – which is important for our country – can be used in very detailed, specified way,” she said.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/01/do-not-trust-brazils-greenwashing-promises-say-amazon-activists

[Magoo48]

1. Good advice.

I would add, don’t trust any major nation’s greenwash bullshit.