President Biden pledged a $500 million investment to the Amazon Fund, a sum that would make his country one of the world’s largest donors to the international conservation program to protect the Amazon rainforest from deforestation.
United States President Joe Biden pledged a $500 million investment to the Amazon Fund on Thursday, a sum that would make his country one of the world’s largest donors to the international conservation program to protect the Amazon rainforest from deforestation.
5 degrees can stay within reach,” Biden added. The announcement comes the same day Biden welcomed Colombian President Gustavo Petro to the White House, saying he considers Colombia “the key to the hemisphere,” in efforts to ensure the Western Hemisphere is “united, equal, democratic, and economically prosperous.” At Thursday’s Oval office meeting with Petro, Biden also spoke to efforts to combat narcotics trafficking in the region, and “to address historic levels of migration in the hemisphere.
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