BELÉM, Brazil — For years, Democrats broadly dismissed as a Big Oil talking point the idea that California’s consumption of oil from the Amazon drives deforestation. At this year’s U.N. climate talks, that talking point is sticking.
“Awareness has been raised, and I think this trip will raise awareness even more,” said state Sen. Josh Becker, a Bay Area clean-energy advocate who met with Indigenous activists from the Brazilian and Ecuadorian Amazon while at the talks in Brazil last week.
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