What Bolsonaro's Re-election Could Mean for Climate Change

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 15, 2022

According to a recent article in the New York Times, the Amazon forest in Brazil has lost an area as big as Belgium since Jair Bolsonaro became president in 2019. Manuela Andreoni, writer for the Climate Forward newsletter based in Brazil and a former fellow at the Rainforest Investigation Network, covering the Brazilian Amazon, discusses what Bolsonaro's potential re-election would mean for deforestation in the country and climate change on a global scale.

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