Trump did not agree to G7 aid package for Amazon fires

[riversedge]

Source: CNN




Updated 4:31 PM ET, Wed August 28, 2019

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump did not commit to a $20 million package proposed at the G7 to help Brazil fight fires in the Amazon, a Trump administration spokesman said Wednesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that G7 nations had agreed to fund a $20 million package to help combat raging forest fires in the Amazon and said the US was on board with the proposal despite Trump's absence at a leaders meeting on the environment.

But National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said Wednesday that the US had not committed to the aid package, citing a lack of coordination with the Brazilian government.

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Macron insisted that the US was on board with "the Amazon initiative" during a news conference on Monday, even though Trump did not attend the leaders' session on climate where the aid package was agreed to. A National Security Council official attended the session on the US' behalf instead.
"You shouldn't read anything into the American President's absence," Macron said on Monday. "The United States is with us on biodiversity and on the Amazon initiative."



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/politics/donald-trump-amazon-fire-aid-g7/index.html

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I think Macron bent over backwards to appease Trump at the G7!! I can understand Europe's strategy (in general) just to appease him till Trump is OUT, but Macron went too far IMHO.


Meanwhile, I saw an article yesterday saying that Canada is giving about 16 million of the total G7 pledge to help the Amazon fires.

[mr_lebowski]

1. He's right that "the United States is with (them) ...

on biodiversity and on the Amazon initiative".

It's just our fuckwit Presidunce and his mindless cult members (a relatively small % of the US population) who are not.

22M is friggin' peanuts anyway. Even for 1 country, let alone 7.

Leave it to the Presidunce to whine about contributing an amount equivalent to what US Taxpayers spend, oh, I dunno, EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME HE GOES GOLFING, which is EVERY WEEKEND.

[Keg Stand]

2. America first and all that shit. n/t

[B Stieg]

3. Of course he didn't

How terrible it is that these neofascists are in charge when we need conservationists running things...

[NanceGreggs]

4. I take your point ...

... but I don't see it as appeasement. I see it as Macron being a gentleman - despite the fact that he knows Trump is an asshole, as does everyone else involved.

Macron wasn't trying to avoid Trump being embarrassed - he was trying to avoid the US from being so.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. We are no longer an international leader and partner....

at least not while tRump is in office.

We should be leading the charge in this effort and applying maximum pressure on Bolsonaro to stop this carnage.

Will the international community ever unite to start protecting the earth's Commons?..... .....

[mainer]

6. Because this Trump donor profits from the burning.

TWO BRAZILIAN FIRMS owned by a top donor to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, carnage that has developed into raging fires that have captivated global attention.

The companies have wrested control of land, deforested it, and helped build a controversial highway to their new terminal in the one-time jungle, all to facilitate the cultivation and export of grain and soybeans. The shipping terminal at Miritituba, deep in the Amazon in the Brazilian state of Pará, allows growers to load soybeans on barges, which will then sail to a larger port before the cargo is shipped around the world.

And Trump doesn't want to piss off his donors.

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/27/amazon-rainforest-fire-blackstone/

[Firestorm49]

7. Why give money for a cause when you divert it to the rich instead?

[aggiesal]

8. Because he couldn't grift any of the money ...

beside, he probably makes more money with the Amazon burning,
than stopping the fire.

[The Newseum]

9. Nukaholic

may be he thinks nuke is the solution to Amazon fire..

[Harker]

10. He thinks it has something to do with

Jeff Bezos.