Amazon deforestation and Brazil’s forest code: a crossroads for climate change

10 de abril de 2012

abr 10, 2012

Stephan Schwartzman, Paulo Moutinho, Steven Hamburg

Considerably more is at stake in the ongoing battle in Brazil’s Congress and government over the country’s core forest protection legislation, the Forest Code, than President Dilma Rousseff’s political fortunes or Brazil’s international reputation.

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