Bogota, Columbia (APP) – Alexis Demansio Silva couldn’t forget the difficulties in his town of Puerto Nareno in southern Columbia last year Extreme drought Nearly dried the Amazon River. Pink dolphins and fish died. The crops were dry. The city lost its easy access to the markets.
Silva hopes that the United States will fund the projects that can make solar panels for energy to refrigerate fish to indigenous communities, for example, or locks to catch precious rainwater.
“We say to President Trump’s government … to send us resources,” he said in a zoom interview with the Associate Press, “to help the region’s indigenous people, he said a zoom with the Associate Press. He said in the interview. He said that very little comes from the state.
Environmental groups say it is unlikely to happen, and it was before Trump Freeze new funding For almost All of us foreign aid.
He fears that Donald Trump’s second administration will not bring anything to the Amazon Reinforist. In addition to Trump’s day to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, he fears he will reduce funds for policing, which has targeted illegal logging, mining and other things. Has damaged the rains. They also fear that they will support right -wing politicians who are in favor of aggressive development in Amazon, which is important for storing carbon dioxide, which will otherwise heat the planet.
President Donald Trump addressed the House Republican members of the 2025, Dorl, Fall, January 27, 2025 at the Conference on the Conference at the Trump National Dorl Miami. (AP Photo/Mark Shufflebin, File)
“The implications of the Trump administration for Amazon Renforist are very horrible,” said Andrew Miller, director of the non -profit Amazon Watch.
Trump’s first week’s return to executive orders, which preferred foam fuel, preferred, to declare energy emergencies in the United States and increase barriers to oil and gas growth. Including intentions. They are also wrapped in a “US First” message that is not widely in line with foreign aid.
On Sunday, he rapidly contested Colombian President Gustav Petro by threatening standing rates on Sunday Petro refuses to allow military planes Take deported refugees to Earth in Colombia. Trump’s plans to play hardball in the region were clear weeks ago when he suggested that he could use military force Take control of the Panama Canal.
Miller said his organization has advised his partners to “assume that the Trump administration’s priorities will not include climate, environmental or indigenous rights programs.”
On October 20, 2024, during the drought on the Amazon River in Linda Linda near Colombia, the Tiruni Desi community receives helplessly help.
In the first term of Trump, the US Agency for International Development Budget annually had about $ 17 billion to $ 27 billion annually, with the Congress often moderated with key proposed deductions. Under President Joe Biden, USAID’s budget increased to $ 30.5 billion in 2024, focusing on global health, climate action, humanitarian aid, and promoting democracy. The new administration said the relief frozen will last for 90 days as it is considered which is to keep the program.
In Brazil, about 60 % of Amazon’s home, organized crime such as logging and drug trafficking under the right -wing of Jer Bolsonaro, with severe consequences of environmental results. President Loose Ennico Lola Da Silva gave a central priority to the protection of Amazon when he took office in 2023.
Brazilian Minister of Environment, Marina Silva told AP that Trump’s return is an important test for American democracy and international organizations, and that as the world’s second largest emission of greenhouse gases, it “extreme” Important is “the United States fulfills its responsibilities.
Brazilian President Louise Lola Da Silva has signed a climate change agreement in which the Minister of Environment, as well as from right, from right, and along with the Minister of Desi, Sonia Gojjara, the Planolo Presidential Palace in Bracelia. During the signing of the contract, on my left, Brazil, August 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Erldo Perez, File)
She looks at some hope, saying that despite the climate crisis nowadays, the world’s climate rule is very strong.
Marina Silva said, “This does not mean that we will have an easy time with Trump in the office.” We just have to admit that we are already looking at some companies and leaders … To give up or loose promises. “
Since Trump’s elections, several major US banks have withdrawn from a network that aims to lend ways that are found in global commitment to reduce extraction.
Silva said it is important for countries to continue to “verify the size of climate challenges” and show how to overcome them. He said, “The truth needs to take advantage of President Trump’s well -known statements.”
The Trump administration did not respond to comment messages.
Support for pro -politicians?
Development in Amazon is a polarization problem in Brazil. The lawmakers who support it focus on economic growth, employment creation, and infrastructure. More liberal lawmakers, environment and indigenous rights groups oppose the environment and the effects of people living in the forest.
Lola has had some success in controlling illegal logging, mining, drug trafficking, and the change in land for agriculture. It came with the support of Biden, who became the first US president to visit Amazon in November and promised 50 million in the Amazon Fund, which raises money to protect Amazon rainfall. Most of this money is on the rise in policing in the region.
Carlos Nobre, a Brazilian climate scientist and a leading researcher who studied Amazon Renforist, said he did not see Trump continuing to continue his commitment. He also said that he was worried about Trump’s past support for Bolsonaro, and expect him to promote right -wing politicians again.
Although Bolsnaro is Was forbidden from running For the post by 2030, his son Edwardo is a potential presidential candidate next year, and Brazil has many members in the National Congress who are in favor of Amazon’s development.
Jerry Bolsnaro, who supported Trump’s false claims of the stolen elections of 2020, tried to attend his inauguration but was not allowed to leave Brazil to attend. Edwardo Bolsonaro participated.
Miller expected that Trump would bow to “far -right candidates” who praised him, and promoted him in the elections.
Miller said, “His policies, if he is chosen, will spread the destruction of Amazon for rain in the future.” “Trump will offer a permission structure to the 2.0 Amazon governments to ignore or follow climate promises, especially when the protection of rainfall mostly demands ambitions and regional harmony.”
Miller is most concerned about US support for multilateral human rights procedures such as the American Commission for Human Rights and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
“Both of these threats are important for the protection of the Amazon community leaders and environmental guards,” he said.
On September 24, 2024, boats and houses are sitting with the drought in the drought in Mansois, Amazonas State, Brazil. (AP Photo/Admer Barros, File)
Deduction and multinational cooperation in funding
John Walsh, the drug policy at the Washington Office in Latin America and John Walsh, the director of the Endis, said the funds cut after policy is his biggest concern.
“If we are instructed to eliminate foreign aid and to reduce climate and adapt to global aid, we can expect standing deductions,” Walsh said. “It is the focus of the incoming administration how to reduce the federal budget in ways that will almost completely fall on the intensive programs that will fully fall, which has no locally solid components.” .
Trump generally complained of multilateral cooperation in his first term, and preferred a more unilateral approach to foreign policy with his administration.
Walsh said, “For a problem like climate change, this is a problem of collective action … and the world’s largest economy and historically the largest emission of carbon dioxide is absent from it. Have to do. ”
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