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INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS against burning forests and indiscriminate tree felling in the Amazon revived the risk of political pressure, boycott of goods and economic sanctions imposed by great powers on the culpable states that do not pay enough attention to ecological problems. This might threaten their sovereignty: the world has increased its attention to the Brazilian Amazon and put forward unprecedented political demands. While fires were spreading across the Amazon rainforest. President of France Emmanuel Macron said at the G7 summit held in France in August 2019 that "the Amazon should be given an international status." France has not yet moved in this direction, yet its president did not exclude a possibility that this idea would become part of the international agenda: "We should predate our actions by legal and political efforts. This is an open subject that will develop in the next months and years."1
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