MANAUS, BRAZIL: Joe Biden grew to become the primary sitting US president to go to the Amazon rainforest on Sunday (Nov 17), flagging the risks of worldwide warming typically dismissed by President-elect Donald Trumpwho has vowed to scrap measures to struggle local weather change.
Biden flew from Lima, Peru, to Manaus, Brazil, the largest metropolis within the Amazon, to fulfill with native leaders working to protect the rainforest. He was to go afterward to Rio de Janeiro for a summit of the Group of 20 major economies that can deal with points together with poverty, world governance and local weather change.
Whereas within the Amazon, Biden toured aboard his Marine One presidential helicopter, viewing the confluence of the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers at Manaus, spots the place water ranges have dropped sharply because of the worst drought in many years and the rainforest.
Biden was accompanied by Brazilian scientist and Nobel Prize winner Carlos Nobre, who has warned that the Amazon could also be past saving as deforestation has modified the climate patterns that maintain its jungle local weather.
Biden additionally went to the Museum of the Amazon in Manaus the place he met with indigenous leaders. Folks stood alongside his motorcade route and congregated on the museum entrance, snapping footage and waving.
