(17 Nov 2024)
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Manaus, Brazil – 17 November 2024
1. Plane carrying U.S. President Joe Biden landing
2. Various of plane on tarmac
3. Various of Biden and Brazilian Nobel Prize-winning scientist Carlos Nobre walking towards helicopter to fly over Amazon
4. Biden entering helicopter
5. Helicopter getting ready to depart
6. Various of Biden walking to car after aerial tour over part of the Amazon
7. Vehicle carrying Biden leaving
STORYLINE:
U.S. President Joe Biden toured the drought-shrunken waters of the Amazon River’s greatest tributary Sunday as the first sitting American president to set foot in the legendary rainforest, while the incoming Trump administration seems poised to scale back the U.S. commitment to combating climate change.
Joined by Carlos Nobre, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and expert on how climate change is harming the Amazon, and Biden climate adviser John Podesta, the president lifted off in his helicopter over a stretch of the rainforest.
Biden was scheduled to next meet local and indigenous leaders and visit an Amazonian museum as he looks to highlight his commitment to the preservation of the region.
His administration announced plans last year for a $500 million contribution to the Amazon Fund, the most significant international cooperation effort to preserve the rainforest, primarily financed by Norway.
So far, the U.S. government said it has provided $50 million, and the White House announced Sunday an additional $50 million contribution to the fund.
Still, the Biden White House on Sunday announced a series of new efforts aimed at bolstering the Amazon and stemming the impact of climate change.
Biden is making the Amazon visit as part of a six-day trip to South America, the first to the continent of his presidency.
He traveled from Lima, Peru, where he took part in the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
After his stop in Manaus, he was heading to Rio de Janeiro for this year’s Group of 20 leaders summit.
AP Video shot by Fernando Crispim
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