Norway to resume Brazil aid halted over deforestation

Oslo (AFP) Oct 31, 2022

Norway said Monday it would resume sending Amazon protection subsidies to Brazil, which it had halted in 2019 under Jair Bolsonaro, following Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's election victory. "We note that during the campaign he (Lula) emphasised the conservation of the Amazon forest and the protection of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon," Norway's Environment Minister Espen Barth Eide told