Amazon countries meeting next week for a summit on cooperation to save the rainforest aim to set up a scientific body like the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to share research, Brazil’s environment minister told Reut
It would also seek to determine the limits of what scientists call the “point of no return” when the rainforest is damaged beyond repair.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday that leaders of the eight countries in the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization would seek to draw up a common policy for the first time to protect the rainforest. Marina Silva said the meeting on Aug. 8-9 in Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon river, was long overdue.“The summit took 14 years to assemble. This is unacceptable, given everything that is happening in the world, the speed of changes occurring to the detriment of the Amazon and its inhabitants, and the dynamics of global geopolitics on the climate issue,” she said.
Lula has overhauled Brazil’s environment policies since taking office in January, succeeding far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who relaxed protection the environment and encouraged development of the Amazon, where deforestation soared. Preliminary government figures showed on Thursday that deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon fell in July to its lowest level since 2017, boosting Lula’s credibility on environmental policy ahead of the summit.Your subscription has been successful.
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