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Brazil’s economic crisis, prolonged by COVID-19, poses an enormous challenge to the Amazon

  • Written by Peter Richards, Adjunct Professor, George Washington University
imageA deforested piece of land in the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, in the state of Rondonia, in northern Brazil, on Aug. 23, 2019.Carl De SouzaA/FP via Getty Images

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed his country’s participation in a virtual climate summit convened by the U.S. for April 22 and 23, vowing in a recent letter to U.S....

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