Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia have formally launched an association to cooperate in the preservation of forests. Lula’s environmental adviser, Izabella Teixeira, said Brazil would seek the participation of other countries in the Amazon basin, which encompasses nine nations.
Brazilthe Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia have formally launched a partnership to cooperate on the preservation of rainforests.
The agreement was sealed, this Monday, November 14, reported Reuters. Envoys from the three countries, which account for 52% of the world’s tropical forests, signed the joint statement at talks in Indonesia ahead of the Group of 20 industrialized countries (G20) summit, which begins Tuesday, April 15. november.
The G20 talks coincide with the final week of the United Nations COP27 climate summit in Egypt, where Lula’s environmental adviser, Izabella Teixeira, said qthat Brazil would seek the participation of other countries in the Amazon basin, which encompasses nine nations.
In August of this year, Reuters He reported that Luiz Inacio Lula da SilvaBrazil’s president-elect since late October and who will take power in January 2024, would seek a partnership with the other two nations to pressure the rich world to finance forest conservation.
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“Forests matter, nature matters. And I believe that without the protection of the Amazon we cannot have climate security,” said Teixeira, who was Lula’s environment minister during Lula’s previous administration, which ended in 2010.
In October, during the presidential campaign for the elections in Brazil, the president, and candidate for re-election, Jair Bolsonaro, continued to deny climate change, indiscriminate logging in the Amazon or forest fires. For his part, Lula da Silva focused his efforts on the conservation of the tropical forest.
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