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Is Brazil doing enough to protect the Amazon?

Is Brazil doing enough to protect the Amazon?

The Climate Question vor 1 Jahr

Are forest fires and demands for oil exploration putting the rainforest at risk?

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This week Host Graihagh Jackson grabs a chat with the BBC’s
correspondents in two countries that will shape our future
climate.

Brazil is about to host the giant COP climate conference in the
Amazon, but the pace of reducing deforestation has just slowed
and there are concerns about potentially weaker environmental
standards. Ione Wells in Sao Paulo also talks Graihagh through
proposals for oil exploration in the mouth of the rainforest.

Plus, China has just started work on the world’s biggest
hydroelectric dam. It’s a huge 167-billion dollar project to
bring power from Tibet to Hong Kong. The dam will increase
Beijing’s use of renewable energy, but comes with a potential
environmental cost, as well as the risk of creating tension with
China’s neighbours. Laura Bicker gives us some staggering facts
and figures about the dam – as well as an explanation of how fish
can use “ladders”.

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Presenter: Graihagh Jackson with Jordan Dunbar Producer: Diane
Richardson Production Co-Ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge Sound
Engineers: Dafydd Evans and Tom Brignell Editor: Simon Watts