Brazil's Amazon must be protected to reach global climate goal, US envoy says

'The reality is that the Amazon is the test of all of our humanity,' says US climate envoy John Kerry.

BRASILIA, Brazil – The world cannot meet its climate goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius unless it protects the Amazon rainforest, climate envoy John Kerry said in Brazil on Tuesday, February 28, while discussing possible US funding for jungle conservation., jump-starting cooperation with the United States on climate change and deforestation after rocky relations under his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.

“The truth is that unless the Amazon is protected from those who would deforest it and who abuse it, we cannot keep the temperature to 1.5 degrees ,” Kerry said, referring to the climate target in the Paris Agreement.Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon falls in first month under Lula

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