Macron: ‘All G7 powers must help Brazil fight raging Amazon fires’
by Angelique Chrisafis & Heather Stewart Biarritz from Environment | The Guardian on (#4NWV9)
French president talks up trade sanctions as world leaders convene and thousands of Brazilians march against Bolsonaro
Emmanuel Macron has asked for world powers to help Brazil and its neighbours fight the fires raging in the Amazon and to plan huge replanting programmes. The appeal came as the French president piled pressure on Brazil's far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, who has been accused of fuelling the burning of the rainforest.
As environmental protesters marched nearby, the G7 summit's, opening meeting was dominated by the spectre of economic repercussions for Brazil and its South American neighbours and showed how the Amazon is becoming a battleground between Bolsonaro and the west. Many governments have become alarmed that vast swathes of the Amazon are going up in smoke, affecting biodiversity and worsening the climate crisis.
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