Environment Minister: Brazil must hurry to make up for lost time
Brazil’s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva said that Brazil needs to hurry to recover the time lost in the last years, when environmental policy was not a priority for the federal government.In an interview to TV Brasil, she said the country will need to seek resources from abroad to resume efforts to preserve the environment. “We will seek philanthropic donations. When I was in Egypt [for the UN conference on climate change, COP27], I met with top representatives of global philanthropy and some of them will come to Brazil to negotiate contribution with resources,” Silva said.Among the entities interested in cooperating are the Earth Alliance Foundation, chaired by actor Leonardo diCaprio, and the Bezos Earth Fund, created by Jeff Bezos, owner of retail giant ...