Eight countries home to the Amazon River basin agreed on initiatives to curtail deforestation. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BELEM, Brazil - On Tuesday, the leaders of eight countries that are home to the Amazon River basin agreed to work together to conserve the world’s largest rainforest atThe agreement, called the Belem Declaration, for the Brazilian city where the meeting was held, provides a road map to stave off the rampant deforestation, caused in large part by industrial agriculture and land-grabbing, that has severely damaged the rainforest and has major implications for Earth’s climate.
The Amazon rainforest is not only a haven of biodiversity but also plays an important role in the fight against climate change because it pulls huge amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and stores it away. Over the past half-century, around 17 per cent of the forest has been razed and an even bigger share is severely degraded.
For months before the summit, Lula pushed the leaders of Bolivia and Venezuela to commit to ending deforestation in their countries by 2030, a pledge the six other Amazon basin countries had already made at the global climate summit in Glasgow in 2021. Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro had in turn pushed Lula to match his commitment to ban all oil drilling the forest, but BrazilNeither push succeeded.
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