{Brazil president} Lula attacks rich on environment (BBC)

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By Tim Hirsch
BBC News environment correspondent

Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva has criticised richer countries for not providing enough money to help preserve the variety of life on Earth.
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President Lula said it was unacceptable that the poorest countries in the world should be bearing the main brunt of environmental degradation caused by unsustainable consumption of resources by the richer world.

He went on to say it was worrying that at the very moment in which conservation efforts were growing around the world, the financial resources to support them were being reduced.

That was a reference to an argument at this conference over contributions from the United States and other industrialised countries to a UN fund directed at environmental protection.
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