Brazil Seeks Deforestation Plan Support (from Al Gore)

[AlGore-08.com]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/17/ap/tech/mainD8KQM9N84.shtml

Brazil's environment minister met Tuesday with former Vice President Al Gore and urged him to back a Brazilian proposal to help developing countries obtain aid to prevent destruction of their rain forests.

Brazil is proposing the creation of a fund financed by developed nations that would provide financial incentives for developing countries to keep their rain forests standing.

"The ex-vice president of United States was very sympathetic to the Brazilian proposal," Environment Minister Marina Silva told reporters after meeting with Gore in Sao Paulo. "He has a public commitment and is a respected activist around the world for this cause. He should analyze it and possibly become an ally" of the proposal.

(snip)

Silva said Brazil intended to reduce the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rain forest by 11 percent this year, the same percentage reduction the government said it achieved between Aug. 2005 and Aug. 2006, when the Amazon lost 6,450 square miles of forest cover.

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[IntiRaymi]

1. The sad truth is that in these countries the state is very weak.

The request is an honest one, borne out of a sincere concern for the environment.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. This Brazilian says: spot-fucking-on.

:cry:

[AlGore-08.com]

2. More from Reuters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061017/sc_nm/environment_brazil_amazon_dc_2

Brazil tells foreigners Amazon "not for sale"

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil on Tuesday rejected a foreign proposal to buy and preserve land in the endangered Amazon and asked former U.S. Vice President Al Gore to support a home-grown rainforest-protection plan.

Gore, who has become a prominent green campaigner since leaving office, is in Brazil to promote the Portuguese-language version of his new book on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth."

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Silva and Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Tuesday the Amazon was the heritage of the Brazilian people and was "not for sale."

Their comments, in a signed article on the opinion page of Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, followed a report in Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper two weeks ago that British Environment Secretary David Miliband was promoting a proposal for a global trust to buy and sell trees in the Amazon.

The report angered Brazilians, who see themselves as the rightful owners and best caretakers of the jungle, most of which lies in its territory.

"Well-meaning individuals concerned about global warming should dedicate themselves to influencing their own governments," the ministers said, adding that most greenhouse gases come from rich nations burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.

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[glitch]

3. This is crucial. K & R nt

[madrchsod]

4. al was in brazil but at this speech the press was`t allowed to report

why? copyrights......http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/16/an_inconvenient_copy.html
Boing Boing: An inconvenient copyright

"important notices to the press"

[Vidar]

5. Good for Brazil & Gore.

[The Count]

6. Somehow I see big money going in Dick&bush's pockets from this

"Got sum wood?" Not a big stretch. BFEE.

[flvegan]

7. Clear the forest to plant the soy, to feed to the cattle (or ranch them)

to feed to the people. Once again, the eating of meat is the single most inefficient way to turn a calorie into energy.