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How a Trade Deal With Europe Could Help Save Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest

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Craig Mellow
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Brazil’s president has a plan to stop Amazon deforestation by 2030. Here: a burnt area of the rainforest in Apui, in the southern Amazonas State.

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There’s one good reason the rest of the world should care about Brazil, aside from it being the giant of Latin America with 215 million citizens. That would be the Amazon rainforest, whose role as a carbon sink makes a critical check on global warming.

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