The Guardian: G7 leaders to hold emergency talks over Amazon wildfires crisis
Brazil’s handling of fires to top agenda in Biarritz as France and Ireland threaten to block trade deal
Leaders of the world’s major democracies are due to hold emergency talks this weekend on the wildfires engulfing the Amazon, as international efforts to force Brazil to change its deforestation policies gathered momentum.
As heads of state and government were due to arrive at the G7 in Biarritz on Saturday, France and Ireland threatened to block the Mercosur free-trade agreement between the EU and South American nations if the government of Jair Bolsonaro does not stop the deforestation of the Amazon, which experts say has fuelled the fires.
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Going to Biarritz to talk about backwoods Brazil. Fortunately there is no irony in this whatsoever.
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