The #Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told developed #countries to put their #money where their mouth is when it comes to #protecting the #world’s remaining #tropical #forests, as major #rainforest nations demanded hundreds of billions of dollars of #climate financing and a greater role in how those resources are spent.
“It’s not #Brazil that needs money. It’s not #Colombia that needs money. It’s not #Venezuela. It’s #nature,” Lula told journalists on the second day of a major #environmental summit in the #Amazon city of #Belém.
For two centuries, industrialized nations filled the world’s atmosphere with #pollution, Lula declared, “and they now need to pay their bit to restore part of that which was wrecked”. ...
Lula’s appeal came after hours of meetings between the leaders of the Amazon’s eight nations and representatives of fellow rainforest nations, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and #Indonesia. ...
Lula said the fledgling rainforest bloc had a simple message to those “rich countries” in the lead up to November’s #Cop28 summit in #Dubai: “If they want to effectively preserve what is left of the forests, they must spend money – not just to take care of the canopy of the #trees but to take care of the #people who live beneath that canopy and who want to work, to study and to eat and … to live decently.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/09/lula-brazil-amazon-rainforests-money
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