MANAUS, BRAZIL: Joe Biden grew to become the primary sitting US president to go to the Amazon rainforest on Sunday (Nov 17), flagging the hazards of worldwide warming usually dismissed by President-elect Donald Trump who has vowed to scrap measures to combat local weather change.
Biden flew from Lima, Peru, to Manaus, Brazil, the largest metropolis within the Amazon, to satisfy with native leaders working to protect the rainforest. He was to go afterward to Rio de Janeiro for a summit of the Group of 20 main economies that may deal with points together with poverty, world governance and local weather change.
Whereas within the Amazon, Biden toured aboard his Marine One presidential helicopter, viewing the confluence of the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers at Manaus, spots the place water ranges have dropped sharply as a result of worst drought in a long time and the rainforest.
Biden was accompanied by Brazilian scientist and Nobel Prize winner Carlos Nobre, who has warned that the Amazon could also be past saving as deforestation has modified the climate patterns that maintain its jungle local weather.
Biden additionally went to the Museum of the Amazon in Manaus the place he met with indigenous leaders. Individuals stood alongside his motorcade route and congregated on the museum entrance, snapping footage and waving.
“The world’s forest bushes breathe carbon dioxide out of the ambiance, and but every minute, the world is chopping down the equal (of) 10 soccer fields price of forest,” Biden instructed reporters.
