OECD requests commitment to curb deforestation as precondition for Brazil’s membership

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) formally approved the start of negotiations for Brazil to join the group, requested in 2017. Among the demands presented to Bolsonaro adminstration as conditions for the agreement are the reduction of deforestation and measures to mitigate climate change. provided for in the Paris agreement.

In response, Bolsonaro said that “there is no doubt that Brazil shares the OECD’s objective to support sustainable economic growth“, in a letter sent to the organization’s secretary-general, Mathias Cormann.

In an article about the beginning of the negotiations, journalist Matheus Pichonelli cited the Smoke Signal socio-environmental monitor when highlighting the dismantling promoted by the government’s environmental policies in the last three years. On the country’s entry into the OECD, Pichonelli says that “to beckon with the club of rich countries, Bolsonaro will have to break with the club of agrotroglodytes”, alluding to the agribusiness sector, an important ally of the president.