Amazon Summit culminates with a call to the “rich world” to pay for the jungle

The countries that boast the largest tropical forests on the planet urged this Wednesday the “rich world” to do your part to help preserve these biomes and pay to keep the rainforest standing, at the close of the Amazon Summitwhich took place in the city Brazilian of belem.

On the second and last day of the summit of member countries of the Organization of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (OTCA) nations from Africa, Asia, Europe and America.

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After the meeting, which was held behind closed doors, the eight Amazon countries, along with the Republic of Congothe Democratic Republic of Congo and St. Vincent and the Grenadinesreaffirmed their commitment against climate change, but insisted that it will not be enough without the necessary cooperation of the richest nations.

In a joint statement called “United by our forests”, emphasized the need to combine environmental preservation with economic growth, a message that they will jointly take to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP28), which will be held in November in the United Arab Emirates.

“But you cannot talk about tropical forests and climate change without addressing the historical responsibility of developed countries”, stated the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvahost of the event, during his speech.

In this sense, the ten-point communiqué expresses its concern about the non-compliance of the mitigation goals by some of these nations and calls for “meet their climate finance obligations”.

This premise refers to the agreement for “provide $100 billion in climate finance a year in new and additional resources to developing countries” to finance the preservation of the most sensitive ecosystems on the planet.

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The text also condemns measures taken to combat climate change, some “one-sided”, which constitute “a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on international trade”.

In this sense, it reinforces that “Forests can be centers of sustainable development and sources of solutions to national and global sustainability challenges, reconciling economic prosperity with environmental protection and social welfare.”.

The declaration also reiterates the criticism of the most developed countries, already expressed in a statement signed by bolivian, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, guyana, Peru, Surinam and Venezuela this Tuesday, at the summit of leaders of the ACTOalso held in belem.

fight poverty

During his speech on Wednesday, President Lula pointed out that it is not enough to fight deforestation, since the places where the forests are most devastated is where there is the most poverty and where the worst health, sanitation, and education indices are recorded. , food security and violence.

This statement was reiterated by the president before the press at the end of the meeting.

“we will go to the COP28 to say that if they want to preserve the forests it is necessary to put money, not only for the treetops, but also to take care of the people who are in their shadow, who want to work and study“, he claimed.

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many intentions

On the first day of the summit, the eight Amazon countries expressed their opinion in a long list of intentions with few concrete actions to stop deforestation of the biome.

The lack of a joint commitment to achieve zero deforestation before 2030 and strong actions against the exploitation of fossil fuels such as oil in the most extensive forest on the planet, which were the most expected, were vaguely addressed in the Declaration of Belém.

In the thick document of 113 points, the Amazonian countries promoted, yes, a complete cooperation agenda for the biome with measures for the management of water, security, health, sustainable infrastructures and the promotion of the human rights of the traditional towns.

Source: Elcomercio

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