By Jarrett Renshaw

LIMA (Reuters) – Joe Biden will turn into the primary sitting U.S. president to go to the Amazon (NASDAQ:) rainforest on Sunday as he flags the hazards of worldwide warming typically dismissed by Donald Trump, who enters the White Home in January vowing to scrap measures to battle local weather change.

Biden is touring from Lima, Peru, to Manaus, Brazil, to fulfill with native leaders working to protect the Amazon, earlier than he flies to Rio de Janeiro for a summit of the Group of 20 main economies addressing points from starvation and poverty to world governance and local weather change.

Scientists say conservation of the Amazon is significant to curbing local weather change due to the huge quantity of climate-warming carbon dioxide its timber soak up.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vowed to finish deforestation in his nation’s rainforest by 2030 and urged rich nations to contribute to the trigger.

Final yr, Biden mentioned he would request $500 million from the U.S. Congress to assist the Brazilian-administered Amazon Fund. Nonetheless, by July the US had delivered on only a tenth of that pledge.

Trump has referred to as local weather change a hoax and plans to roll again a lot of Biden’s landmark local weather laws to assist pay for the extension of tax cuts secured in his first time period.

The incoming Republican president additionally goals to spice up file U.S. oil and manufacturing and get rid of guidelines imposed by Biden to wean gasoline-powered automobiles off U.S. roads.