Biden becomes the 1st sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest

The World

In his four-hour visit to Manaus, in northern Brazil, Joe Biden met with Indigenous leaders and committed an additional $50 million to a Brazil-administered fund to protect the Amazon rainforest. As the US braces for major climate policy shifts under Donald Trump, Biden declared that “no-one can reverse” the US clean energy revolution. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports.

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