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LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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December 12, 5924

What Will Help Brazil Recover From Deadly Flooding?

Devastating floods have left more than 150 people dead and hundreds of thousands of people displaced, while causing billions of dollars in damage, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state. // Photo: Brazilian Government.

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Natalie Unterstell, president of the Talanoa Institute: “Any investment made without resilience is a bad investment. The government’s recent $10 billion aid package is significant, yet it primarily addresses immediate relief and reconstruction. The role of the government at this moment is to provide personnel and resources, but the main focus should have been on pre-disaster actions, which have already passed. The catastrophic flooding highlights Brazil’s urgent need for comprehensive climate adaptation strategies at the local and national levels. In that regard, the largest infrastructure program in Brazil, called the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC), aims to invest 1.7 trillion reais ($400 billion, roughly) but contains no…”

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