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Amazon countries sign rainforest pact to save it
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Amazon countries sign rainforest pact to save it

Published August 9, 2023
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“The Amazon is our passport to a new relationship with the world, a more symmetrical relationship in which our resources will not be exploited for the benefit of a few, but valued and placed at the service of all,” Lula said in a speech at the meeting.

Deforestation rates have dropped by 42 per cent during Lula’s tenure.

Preliminary satellite imaging

The agreement sets the groundwork for coordination between the Amazon basin’s eight countries on law enforcement to combat widespread illegal mining and logging, as well as between banks assigned to pool development funds for conservation and sustainable employment for the region’s inhabitants. It also creates an Amazon-specific climate-focused scientific panel.

While the agreement projected symbolic unity, it fell short of the biggest ambitions Lula had hoped to realise.

Cargo trucks turn off the Trans-Amazon highway, top, in Campo Verde, Para state, Brazil. Carved through jungle during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s, the roads were built to bend nature to man’s will in the vast hinterland. Five decades later, there’s worsening deforestation.Credit: AP

For months before the summit, Lula pushed the leaders of Bolivia and Venezuela to commit to ending deforestation in their countries by 2030, a pledge the six other Amazon basin countries had already made at the global climate summit in Glasgow in 2021. Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who has adopted the region’s most progressive policies on conservation, had in turn pushed Lula to match his commitment to ban all oil drilling in the forest, but Brazil still has plans for a huge offshore project at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Neither push succeeded.

Eduardo Viola, who studies environmental international affairs at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil, said there was no doubt the summit marked the most significant step Amazon countries have made to protect the forest, but it may not be enough. “The commitments vary a lot, and the implementation capacity outside Brazil is low, or very low,” he said.

The expected announcement on Wednesday (Thursday AEST) of further cooperation among other countries that are home to the most of the rest of the world’s rainforests could include efforts to increase access to financing from wealthier nations that would promote sustainable forest use.

Cattle on a farm in Maraba, Para state, Brazil. In 2021, some European supermarkets restricted imports of Brazilian beef after it was linked to deforestation.

Cattle on a farm in Maraba, Para state, Brazil. In 2021, some European supermarkets restricted imports of Brazilian beef after it was linked to deforestation.Credit: Bloomberg

The foundation for that agreement was laid last year at COP27, the United Nations-sponsored global climate summit, which was held in Egypt. Belém, the city where this week’s Amazon negotiations have taken place, is set to host COP30 in 2025.

The meeting in Belém provided Lula and others with a venue to harshly criticise wealthy countries, particularly Western ones, for not delivering on a promise made in at the UN climate summit in 2009 to provide $US100 billion in climate finance annually to poorer nations.

The thick jungle of Tambopata in Peru.

The thick jungle of Tambopata in Peru.Credit: iStock

Historically, leftists in the region have pushed for more environmental protections. Lula and Petro, whose countries are home to nearly three-quarters of the remaining Amazon rainforest, went beyond that and have made conservation a cornerstone of their presidencies.

Under Petro, Colombia has sought to position itself as a leader on climate issues, with a push to phase out oil drilling, which would be a first for any of the world’s oil-drilling nations.

Despite the projection of unity, analysts said political crises wracking numerous Amazon basin countries contributed to the limited scope of the Belém Declaration. Under the authoritarian leadership of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela is enduring a crushing economic meltdown.

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Peru has had five presidents in the past four years. And Ecuador is holding early elections this month after its president dissolved Congress.

Neither the Venezuelan nor the Ecuadorian president was present at the summit.

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