The value is not included in the final statement, but is confirmed by a participant in the meeting between Lula and Biden at the White House. The contribution is well below that of Norway and Germany: the United States intends to contribute to the Amazon Fund with an initial donation of 50 million dollars (R$ 270 million), a Brazilian diplomat said, this Friday (10/ 02), anonymously, to Reuters news agency, following the meeting between Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Joe Biden at the White House.
The joint statement released after the meeting does not specify an amount, but does indicate that the United States has announced plans to provide resources for Brazilian Amazon protection programs, including initial support for the Amazon Fund.
The amount offered by the United States is well below the approximately R$ 3 billion already paid by Norway and also the 200 million euros recently offered by Germany, in the context of Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Brazil.
Leaving the White House, Lula said he did not speak specifically about the Amazon Fund with Biden, but about the importance of rich countries financing environmental protection actions in developing countries.
“I really wanted President Biden to participate in building a fund with all the developed countries of the world so that we can take better care of our planet. What we really want is to extract something from the Amazonian biodiversity that could mean an improvement in the quality of life of 25 million people who live there”, he highlighted.
Even so, the Brazilian president said he was convinced the United States would participate. “I felt very excited [de Biden]. What I can say is that she will participate in the Amazon fund,” Lula said.
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The Amazon Fund was created in 2009, during the Lula government, to help fight deforestation and is mainly funded by Norway and also by Germany.
However, these two countries have frozen their contributions to the fund due to the advance of deforestation in the Amazon under former president Jair Bolsonaro, but have expressed a desire to resume them with Lula in power.
In Lula’s entourage at the White House were ministers Fernando Haddad (Finance), Marina Silva (Environment), Mauro Vieira (Foreign Relations) and Anielle Franco (Racial Equality), as well as special adviser Celso Amorim and secretary Marcio Elias Rose.
On the American side were Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Janet Yellen, plus Special Climate Envoy John Kerry and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
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Source: Terra
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