Brazil provokes Macron with Our Lady: He could not even prevent a fire in a church

"We are grateful for the G7 initiative, but these resources may be more useful for reforesting Europe"Lorenzoni, Minister of the Civil House, a post equivalent to that of Prime Minister, has Gerson Cammarotti, blogger of G1, the Globo news site.

"Brazil is a democratic and free nation, which has never had colonialist and imperialist behavior, as perhaps the goal of the Frenchman Macron, concomitant with high rates of unpopularity at home" , added Lorenzoni.

The minister reaffirmed that his country "can give lessons to anyone" in environmental protection, stressing that "there is no country in the world". a world that has a greater protection of natural vegetation than ours ".

During the night, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement that "there are already several instruments" to finance the fight against deforestation under the United Nations Climate Change Agreement (UNFCCC) , recalling that developed countries have committed to invest $ 100 billion a year in the fight against climate change in developing and "This commitment has not been fulfilled, even remotely".

"We argue that France and the other countries supporting its ideas engage seriously in UNFCCC discussions, instead of launching redundant initiatives far below the international commitments made and with ambiguous insinuations on the principle of national sovereignty ", add the text.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo, for his part, said that "Brazil will not accept any initiative implying a relativisation of its sovereignty on its territory, whatever the pretext under which one tries to mask it ".

In a series of posts on Twitter, Araujo wrote that "it's more than obvious the effort of some political currents to extrapolate real environmental problems, turning them into a crisis." manufactured as a pretext to introduce an external control mechanism of the Amazon ".

According to the head of the Brazilian diplomacy, Macron "did not include his idea of ​​an" initiative for the Amazon "in the G7 statement, but presented it at the conference press release to give the impression of a consensus between the countries of the group ".

After indicating that "Nobody needs a new" initiative for the Amazon ", as Macron suggests"Araujo said there are already "instruments to fight deforestation" in the UN Convention on Climate Change.