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This article was first published on the 23rd of August 2019 by Patrick Carpen.
Last updated: August 23, 2019 at 19:55 pm
Ninety million US dollars is a lot of money, and it can do a lot of things. And this is especially great when you don’t have to exhaust huge amounts of resources to get it. In fact, this is a gift which is to be utilized for projects aimed to preserving mother nature.
Within the last decade, Norway alone had contributed over 1 billion US dollars to the Amazon Fund in Brazil for various environmental projects. This year however, in August 2019, all of that came to a screeching halt when Germany froze the proposed 57 million US dollars and Norway froze its scheduled 33 million. That’s a total of 90 million US dollars.
The funders contend that the Bolsonaro administration is not holding up its end of the bargain in protecting the environment.
But President Jair Bolsonaro, a pro-industrialist, seems confident he can make more than that from industrial activities. He responded sarcastically to the move.
Isn’t Norway that country that kills whales up there in the North Pole? Take that money and help Angela Merkel reforest Germany. – Jair Bolsonaro – August 2019.
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