Brazil’s economic crisis, prolonged by COVID-19, poses an enormous challenge to the Amazon
- Written by Peter Richards, Adjunct Professor, George Washington University
A 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 ImagesBrazilian 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....
