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The article offers information on the election of Jair Bolsonaro as the president of Brazil and its implications for the protection of Amazon rainforest, discussing the lack of focus on environmental policies by Bolsonaro, and the importance of Amazon rainforest to the global environment.

The article discusses environmental conservation efforts to preserve the Amazon rain forest in Brazil, with information on the role of diplomacy in climate change policy. Topics include the social and market forces behind global deforestation, the environmental effects of agricultural industries in Brazil, the role of the Amazon region in climate regulation, and the prevention of global warming. Global carbon dioxide emissions are also discussed, with a focus on government land-use regulation, environmental impact analysis, and environmental protection law in Brazil.

The article discusses the prospective loss of Amazonian rain forests associated with illegal property encroachment related to ill-defined land entitlements. Positive and negative aspects of the United Nations (UN) Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programme are discussed. A REDD initiative called the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve (SDR) in Amazonas State is noted. Independent of the UN, the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve (MSDR) protects areas of rain forest called varzeas that are under water during the wet season.

Focuses on Brazilian government's plan to conduct an environmental study of an economic development plan that scientists had warned would eliminate a large portion of the remaining rainforest in the Amazon River Region.