Inter Press Service: The Brazilian government, and its Environment Ministry in particular, accepted a risky bet by agreeing to voluntary goals for curbing deforestation in the Amazon, giving the country greater weight in the global talks on fighting climate change. In the annual period under way (August 2008 to July 2009), Brazil should cut deforestation by 22.5 percent of the total recorded in the previous period, which totalled 11,968 square kilometres, according to the national space research …