'To avoid the point of no return,' argued Colombian President Gustavo Petro, 'we need an ambitious transnational policy to phase out fossil fuels.'
issued by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela states that the South American countries agree"urgent action" is needed to"avoid the point of no return in the Amazon" and combat deforestation, which has surged in recent years.
But the declaration stops short of a cooperative pledge to end deforestation entirely by 2030 and contains no mention of fossil fuels. Individual nations, including Brazil and Colombia, havebecame the first country"Indigenous territories and Indigenous rights are a critical tool for the long-term protection of Amazonia," said Alicia Guzman, Amazon program co-director at Stand.earth.
Environmental groups voiced outrage that Amazon countries were unable to agree to cooperate on ending deforestation by 2030.Márcio Astrini of the Climate Observatory."It's not possible that under those circumstances, the eight presidents of the Amazon nations can't include a line in the declaration stating, in bold letters, that deforestation needs to be zero, that it won't be tolerated anymore.
"To avoid the point of no return, we need an ambitious transnational policy to phase out fossil fuels."
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