The American president, Joe Biden, landed this Sunday in Rio de Janeiro to participate starting this Monday in its last G20 summitwhich will be focused on the fight against the climate crisis and the conservation of the biodiversity of natural treasures such as the Amazon.
But he made a stop before Manausin the heart of the Amazon jungle, thus becoming eThe first president in the White House to visit the Amazon on a journey with an eminent epicenter in the climate crisis.
“I am proud to be here. The first United States president in office to visit the Amazon,” Biden declared from the Negro River, the main tributary of the Amazon, in Manaus, Brazil.
“The most powerful solutions for combat climate change are around us: the world’s forests,” he argued at an event in which he signed the documentation to declare November 17 as International Conservation Day.
A contribution to the Amazon Fund less than that offered
Besides, Biden announced that the US will increase its contribution to the Amazon Fund to 100 million dollarsan initiative promoted by the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
This amount is less than the $500 million committed by Washington in 2023 over five years, although a White House official who is part of the presidential entourage confided that if Trump “comes to the Amazon and sees with his own eyes the drought and what is happening, he may change his mind about climate change.” “and contribute the remaining 400 million of that commitment.
Before arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Biden flew over areas of the Amazon affected by deforestation and made a statement from the Amazon Museum.
The American president said that he will leave his successor, Donald Trump, some “solid foundations” on which he can continue developing the green agenda of your governmentbut warned that the changes in energy transition are irreversible.
“Some may want to delay or stop the energy revolution, but no one will be able to reverse it,” Biden said at the Amazon Museum, a botanical garden located in the Adolpho Ducke forest reserve, one of Brazil’s most important environmental sanctuaries.
Biden arrives with the difficult task of talking about the future with the certainty, which worries many of his counterparts, that Trump’s arrival to power in January will reverse many of the policies he has implemented in these four years of his mandate in this area. of energy transition, support of Ukraine against Russia or containment of China through dialogue.
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