On Thursday’s edition of our Brazil Daily newsletter, we revealed that Brazilian diplomats sought to change a UN resolution that guarantees humans’ “right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.” In a document sent to the UN Human Rights Council, the country “reaffirmed the need to respect each state’s national sovereignty over their natural resources.”
Today, however, Brazil caved to international pressure, withdrawing its amendment proposal and voting in favor of the resolution sponsored by dozens of countries — most of which are in the European Union.
Brazil’s nonchalant approach to rampant deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, Cerrado savanna, and Pantanal wetlands has served as a perfect justification for agro-producing countries in the EU to freeze the bloc’s free trade agreement with Mercosur, signed in mid-2019.
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