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Amazon Fund grantees fear a new funding freeze after Brazil’s election
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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0
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The Amazon Fund, created in 2008 to reward Brazil for cutting deforestation, quadrupled its annual financing under President Lula, growing from about $82 million annually to $233 million, with $1.2 billion available as of Dec. 31, 2025.
Conservationists worry a win by Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro who froze the fund entirely during his term, could halt projects again, including one supporting 614 babassu coconut-harvesting families that sat dormant for nearly a decade.
Brazil's development bank BNDES says election-related risk analysis is routine and unrelated to the calendar, while the environment ministry declined to address the election's potential impact directly.
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A fund that gets switched on and off depending on which family controls the palace isn't really a policy, it's a mood ring. Nearly ten years of a coconut-harvesting project sitting on a shelf because of who won an election tells you everything about how fragile these promises are. The forest doesn't pause for a campaign season, even if the money protecting it does.
