Brazil Not Using Money Destined for the Preservation of the Amazon
6/1/99
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Title: Brazil Not Using Money Destined for the Preservation of the
Amazon
Source: Folha de Sao Paulo
Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for permission to reprint
Date: June 1, 1999
Brazil has at its disposal, but is not using, US$270 million for
projects designed to protect the Amazon rainforest, informed
Greenpeace at a news conference yesterday. According to the NGO, the
money was given in 1992 by the G-7, the seven wealthiest countries of
the world, and by the European Union.
Brazil has only used US$70 million of the US$340 million originally
given. "I think its a scandal that this money has been made
available for such a long time, and only a fraction of it has been
used," said the international director of Greenpeace, Thilo Bode.
Bode was in Rio de Janeiro yesterday to announce a new campaign by
the NGO for the preservation of the Amazon.