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<p>The UK Government recognises the importance of protecting rainforests and has a
long and proud history of supporting action to combat deforestation. The Government’s
25 Year Environment Plan, published last year, sets out work to protect the world’s
forests, support sustainable agriculture and move towards zero-deforestation supply
chains.</p><p> </p><p>Brazil is one of our priority countries for both climate change
and biodiversity engagement, and the UK Embassy in Brazil leads our engagement with
the Brazilian Government on the environment. We have been having positive discussions
with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, who are keen
to continue our partnership to promote sustainable agricultural practices to combat
deforestation rates. The first phase of our Low-carbon Agriculture programme (£24.9
million), completed in May this year, reached over 18,500 beneficiaries in the Amazon
and Atlantic forest biomes and delivered a seven-fold increase in livestock productivity,
while avoiding the clearance of 175,000 hectares of land and reducing 52% of carbon
emissions. An additional £30 million has been committed to expand project activities
to a second phase, taking place in two other major biomes in Brazil – Cerrado and
Caatinga.</p><p> </p><p>Brazil will continue to be an important partner in negotiations
at the forthcoming UN climate summits in Chile this December (the 25<sup>th</sup>
Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP
25) and again at the significant COP 26 in late 2020, where we hope to raise the level
of global ambition on climate change five years on from the landmark Paris Agreement
in 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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