Rodrigo, the 38-year-old owner of a small ranch near Sao Felix do Xingu in Brazil's Amazon rain forest, looked thoughtfully at the floor of his modest home and at his 12-year-old son. "We definitely want to comply with our government's Forest Plan," he told us, adding, "though it is hard." We had traveled to the Amazon as members of a bipartisan Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests. The organization is co-chaired by Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican senator, and former White House chief of staff John Podesta. Our mission was to learn about Brazil's efforts to reduce its rate of ...
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