Brazil’s Amazon deforestation has dropped to its lowest recorded level since 1988, marking a significant environmental milestone under the current administration. The achievement comes as the country prepares for a high-stakes presidential run-off, where the competing candidates hold starkly opposing policies on rainforest protection and international climate relations. With global attention on Brazil’s role in combating deforestation, the outcome of the election could determine whether progress is sustained or reversed. The tension between environmental goals and political priorities looms large as the vote approaches.
Forest clearance at smallest total since records began in 1988 in success for Lula ahead of presidential run-offDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level since records began, new government data shows.But whether this globally important success is maintained or reversed is on a knife edge ahead of a presidential election run-off on 25 October between two candidates with sharply different visions for the future of the rainforest and how that affects relations with the US under Donald Trump. Continue reading...
