Norway said on Monday that it would resume sending Amazon protection subsidies to Brazil, which it had halted in 2019 under Jair Bolsonaro, following Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s election victory. “We had a good and very close collaboration with the government before Bolsonaro and deforestation in Brazil declined greatly under Lula da Silva’s (previous) presidency”, Environment Minister Espen Barth Eide told AFP. “Then we had a head-on collision with Bolsonaro whose approach was diametrically opposed when it came to deforestation”. President-elect @Lulaoficial championed the protection of the A…