Good morning! Today, the Senate’s Environment Committee lash out at Bolsonaro ahead of COP26. Benchmark interest rates go up once more, but will it have the desired effect? Bill freeing up extra budget space still stalled in the lower house.
A new Senate report against Bolsonaro
Just one day after the Senate inquiry approved a scathing report denouncing President Jair Bolsonaro’s pandemic mismanagement, the upper house’s Environment Committee voted on a document flagging the “dismantling” of anti-deforestation mechanisms under the sitting administration.
- “Environmental agencies are being taken apart, with smaller budgets and a massive lack of personnel,” says Senator Eliziane Game, who penned the report.
Why it matters. The report will be presented at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, which starts on Sunday. The event is seen as the most important UN climate meeting since Paris in 2015 — when nations agreed to the goal of keeping global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
No show. President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed yesterday that he will not be a part of Brazil’s 100-person delegation, which will be the event’s second-biggest.
What they are saying. Under Mr. Bolsonaro’s leadership, Brazil has become something of...