Ibama, Brazil’s environmental protection agency, has approved a plan to curb deforestation in 2022. According to the document, published on today’s Federal Register, the federal government will prioritize actions to keep illegal Amazon deforestation in check by way of increased oversight.
The plan falls in line with Brazil’s recent pledges to reduce carbon emissions, made at the latest UN Climate Summit in Glasgow. Given the track record of the Jair Bolsonaro administration, however, it is hard to take these promises at face value.
Under the far-right president Brazil has loosened environmental protection laws and looked the other way while...
