2023-08-09 18:38:49
Countries in Latin America and Africa call on industrialized countries to help fight climate change and protect biodiversity. In a statement adopted today at the Amazon Summit, a dozen countries are calling for funding mechanisms to conserve forests.
They also insist on the promises made by rich countries to provide developing countries with 100 billion dollars a year for climate protection. They also call on developed countries to meet the commitment to provide $200 billion a year for biodiversity conservation.
Eight South American countries also agreed to form an alliance to combat deforestation. According to host country Brazil, a “new and ambitious common agenda” to save the rainforest has been adopted. For activists, the resolutions did not go far enough – it was a “list of promises” without concrete commitments.
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