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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/9/amazon-nations-launch-alliance-to-protect-rainforest-at-key-summit>
"Eight South American countries have agreed to launch an alliance to protect
the Amazon, pledging at a summit in Brazil to stop the world’s biggest
rainforest from reaching “a point of no return”.
Leaders from South American nations also challenged developed countries to do
more to stop the enormous destruction of the world’s largest rainforest, a task
they said cannot fall to just a few countries when the crisis has been caused
by so many.
The closely-watched summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO)
adopted on Tuesday what host country Brazil called a “new and ambitious shared
agenda” to save the rainforest, a crucial buffer against climate change that
experts warn is being pushed to the brink of collapse.
The group’s members – Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru,
Suriname and Venezuela – signed a joint declaration in Belem, at the mouth of
the Amazon River, laying out a nearly 10,000-word roadmap to promote
sustainable development, end deforestation and fight the organised crime that
fuels it.
But the summit attendees stopped short of agreeing to the key demands of
environmentalists and Indigenous groups, including for all member countries to
adopt Brazil’s pledge to end illegal deforestation by 2030 and Colombia’s
pledge to halt new oil exploration. Instead, countries will be left to pursue
their individual deforestation goals."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 04:45:55 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/9/amazon-nations-launch-alliance-to-protect-rainforest-at-key-summit>
"Eight South American countries have agreed to launch an alliance to protect
the Amazon, pledging at a summit in Brazil to stop the world’s biggest
rainforest from reaching “a point of no return”.
Leaders from South American nations also challenged developed countries to do
more to stop the enormous destruction of the world’s largest rainforest, a task
they said cannot fall to just a few countries when the crisis has been caused
by so many.
The closely-watched summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO)
adopted on Tuesday what host country Brazil called a “new and ambitious shared
agenda” to save the rainforest, a crucial buffer against climate change that
experts warn is being pushed to the brink of collapse.
The group’s members – Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru,
Suriname and Venezuela – signed a joint declaration in Belem, at the mouth of
the Amazon River, laying out a nearly 10,000-word roadmap to promote
sustainable development, end deforestation and fight the organised crime that
fuels it."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-endometriosis-poverty-mexico-indigenous-canada/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
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