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Norway’s government warned companies present in Brazil against any involvement in deforestation amid escalating international criticism of the Latin-American country’s management of the Amazon rainforest.

Amid raging wildfires in the rainforest, France’s president has threatened not to approve the Mercosur trade agreement as long as Brazil doesn’t live up to commitments to tackle climate change. Norway has also found itself at odds with Brazil, as the Nordic country and Germany froze millions of dollars for a preservation fund for the Amazon because they said the agreement had been broken.

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