BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — President Jair Bolsonaro wrote a letter to his US counterpart Joe Biden pledging to end illegal deforestation in Brazil by 2030 and seeking “considerable” financial assistance to get there, officials said Thursday. The letter comes a week before Biden hosts a virtual climate summit with 40 world leaders, including Bolsonaro — a far-right climate-change skeptic with whom he previously clashed on the issue of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. “In an […]