The political calculus that maintains destructive environmental policies can be changed
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OLIVER STUENKEL
The writer is associate professor of international relations at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo
It is easy to forget that this year’s first major environmental disaster was not Covid-19 but Australian bush fires. That may have been in the back of Brazil’s environment minister Ricardo Salles’s mind recently. In April, he told a cabinet meeting that public distraction over the coronavirus pandemic was an opportunity to change “all the rules” governing the Amazon’s environmental protection.
Brasília may well hope that a similar dynamic plays out this September when Amazon fires usually peak, helping it to avoid global scrutiny of its controversial environmental…
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