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Brazil’s presidential election could savage its science

One of the two leading candidates has proposed pulling the country out of the Paris climate agreement while the other would seek to boost research funding.
  1. Jeff Tollefson
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A populist surge from a right-wing presidential candidate in Brazil that is threatening to upend the country’s politics could have huge impacts on research budgets and environmental policies.

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Nature 562, 171-172 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06917-w

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  • Correction 12 October 2018: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Bolsonaro had proposed eliminating the science ministry and reorganizing it under the agriculture ministry. The candidate has discussed efforts to decentralize federal science programmes in Brazil, but it's unclear how he would do so. The story has been corrected to reflect this.

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