Bolsonaro Reportedly Withheld Record-High Deforestation Levels in Amazon Ahead of COP26 Summit

Brazil was one of the countries that pledged to end deforestation and reverse it by 2030 at the UN climate summit COP26 in early November in Glasgow. Yet, recent estimates have shown that deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in the country has increased by 22 percent over the past year, reaching a 15-year high.