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Brazil Withdraws as Host of 2019 U.N. Climate Change Conference

HeadlineNov 29, 2018

Brazil has withdrawn from hosting COP25, next year’s United Nations climate conference. Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has been criticized by environmentalists, who warn he will speed catastrophic climate change by opening up vast swaths of the Amazon to agribusiness giants.

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