Group photo at the meeting. The picture shows Colombian President Gustavo Petro (far left), Brazil's Lula Da Silva, Bolivia's Luis Arce, Peru's Dina Boluarte and Venezuela's Delcy Rodriguez. Eraldo Peres / AP
The climate threat|The threat to the Amazon
The Amazonian countries enter into a new alliance – main goals missed
Eight South American countries have formed an alliance to fight the deforestation of the Amazon. The decision was made during the ACTO summit in Brazil on Tuesday, international media write.
The countries signed the 10,000-word long agreement that goes through how the rainforest can be protected.
But the countries failed to agree on the main goal of the meeting, to stop illegal deforestation by 2030. The demand has been brought forward by indigenous peoples and by Brazilian President Lula da Silva. Instead, each of the countries must pursue its own policy regarding deforestation.
The BBC notes that protecting the Amazon is a key to tackling climate change.
Indigenous people demonstrated in the streets of Belem where the summit was being held. The message was that more must be done to protect the rainforest. Paulo Santos / AP
Climate group disappointed: "It's just a list of promises"
The failure of the eight Amazon countries to agree to completely stop illegal deforestation by 2030 points to a global challenge: the difficulty for different countries to agree on common climate goals. That's what Reuters writes after the summit.
Marcio Astrini from the interest organization Climate Observatory is critical.
- The planet is melting, we break temperature records every day. In a scenario like this, it is not possible that eight Amazonian countries cannot make a statement - in capital letters - that deforestation must go down to zero.
Instead, the countries agreed to form an alliance to combat deforestation.
- It is a first step, but there are no concrete decisions, just a list of promises, says Astrini.
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