▲ US President Joe Biden yesterday in the Amazon jungle area in Brazil.Photo Ap

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La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 18, 2024, p. 24

Manaus. Joe Biden yesterday became the first sitting US president to visit the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, before his participation today and tomorrow at the G-20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, although his presence will be overshadowed by the promises of the future president, Donald Trump, to reverse his environmental policies.

During his visit to the city of Manaus, Biden challenged Trump, who promised to reverse the environmental policies of the Democratic administration, by ensuring that nobody can reverse the clean energy revolution in the United States.

The Amazon rainforest was built over 50 million years… So let’s preserve this sacred place for our time and forever, for the benefit of all humanitysaid the head of the White House.

When signing the documentation to declare November 17 International Conservation Day, Biden said: The most powerful solutions to combat climate change are in the world’s forests.

USA fulfilled its promise to raise its contribution to climate change financing to more than $11 billion annually by 2024, making it the largest bilateral contributor in the worldreported the current administration.

The US president toured, aboard the presidential helicopter Marine Onethe confluence of the Amazon and Negro rivers in Manaus – where water levels dropped sharply due to the worst drought in decades –, in the company of Brazilian scientist and Nobel Prize winner Carlos Nobre, who warned that the Amazon could not be saved, since deforestation changed the weather patterns that sustain its jungle climate.