Each episode of Why It Matters breaks down an issue that is shaping our world’s future. Join host Gabrielle Sierra as she speaks with the leaders and thinkers who are facing these questions head on. Fueled by the minds at the Council on Foreign Relations, Why It Matters brings some of the world’s most compelling stories home to you.
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Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
The Brazilian Amazon is burning, threatening the world’s largest repository of biodiversity. If the fires are not controlled soon, they could release a “climate bomb” of stored carbon that would accelerate climate change.
Featured Guests:
Monica de Bolle (Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics)
Stewart M. Patrick (James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance and Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program, Council on Foreign Relations)
Thomas Lovejoy (President, Amazon Biodiversity Center)
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at cfr.org/podcasts/climate-bomb-amazon