Tag: Amazon Fund

• Saturday, May 27th 2023 - 08:00 UTC

  UK and Brazil sign launching of the Partnership for Green and Inclusive Growth

  

  Brazil and UK signed this week a Joint Declaration launching the Partnership on Green and Inclusive Growth on the occasion of the official visit to Brazil of the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr James Cleverly.

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• Wednesday, March 1st 2023 - 08:35 UTC

  Brazil reinstates task force to tackle climate change

  

  Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva was joined by US Presidential Envoy John Kerry when she announced on Tuesday that the government of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva was creating a working group to tackle the effects of climate change by focusing on the fight against deforestation in the Amazon and the defense of indigenous peoples, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Friday, February 17th 2023 - 09:06 UTC

  Amount of US contribution to Amazon Fund to be announced shortly

  

  The US administration of President Joseph Biden is to define in the next few weeks its contribution to Brazil's Amazon Fund, according to Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley.

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 20:11 UTC

  Germany pledges some € 200 million to Brazil's ambitious environmental actions

  

  Germany's Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Svenja Schulze Monday announced in Brasilia the release of about € 200 million to be committed to environmental actions.

• Friday, August 16th 2019 - 07:26 UTC

  Norway suspends funding to curb Amazon deforestation in Brazil

  

  Norway has suspended funding that was supporting measures to curb deforestation in Brazil after the country blocked the operations of a fund receiving the aid, the Norwegian ministry of climate and environment said on Thursday.

• Monday, August 12th 2019 - 07:29 UTC

  Germany will partially suspend funds to protect the Amazon forest

  

  Germany will partially suspend funds sent to Brazil to finance projects aimed at preserving the Amazon forest due to increasing deforestation, Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported.

• Monday, July 22nd 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro again criticizes the state agency monitoring the Amazon forest

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro again criticized a state agency that monitors the Amazon, saying on Sunday that its latest report on increased deforestation damages Brazil’s reputation amid what he says is an “environmental psychosis” overseas about environmental protection in South America’s biggest nation.