Norway is ready to resume payments to Brazil over the prevention of the deforestation of the Amazon if there is a change of government in October's elections as opinion polls suggest, the Nordic country's environment and climate minister said.
Brazilians will vote to pick a new president, with leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holding a 16-percentage-point lead against the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro according to a June 8 survey.
"What they have said, on the opposition side, has been very positive," he said, adding that work on the fund could resume "very fast", in a matter of "weeks or months", "provided the opposition does what it says it will do".Former Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, a climate change sceptic, had criticized the Amazon Fund's management in 2019, making unspecified allegations of irregularities in awards given to non-governmental organizations.
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