Norway says it will resume Amazon protection fund payments if Bolsonaro is not re-elected

In an interview for Reuters, Norway’s Climate and Environment Minister, Espen Barth Eide, said the country is willing to resume donations to the Amazon Fund if there is a change of government in the October elections in Brazil. “If it is as the polls show and there is a change [of government] in Brazil, we have high hopes that we can quickly resume a good and active partnership,” he said.

The fund, managed by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), is intended for actions to prevent and combat deforestation in the biome and has Norway as the main donor, in addition to having Germany as a contributor. In August 2019, the two countries interrupted the donations after a series of public attacks by the then Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, against the fund added to the increasing rates of deforestation in the Amazon.