Biden seeks $500 million for Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in gesture to Lula
U.S. President Joe Biden is seeking $500 million to bolster Brazil’s strategy to protect the Amazon, a gesture to his counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva amid recent tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and relations with China.
Biden will request the U.S. Congress deliver the money over five years to Brazil’s Amazon Fund, an international conservation initiative set up with Germany and…