Amazon rainforest nations emerged from a summit this week with a stronger hand to play at upcoming United Nations climate talks, despite the meeting’s lackluster final agreement, according to environmental groups. “So (developed nations) now need to pay their part to restore a part of what they destroyed.”Lula will take that message on the road this year at the G20, United Nations General Assembly and U.N. COP28 climate summit. Lula in particular left the summit as a stronger voice for this bloc, Astrini said. Stronger voiceRainforest nations have a stronger unified voice after the meeting, at least on paper, said Luis Roman, a representative of nonprofit WWF Peru. They also called for rich nations to meet a pledge to provide $200 billion per year in biodiversity conservation funding by 2030.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald August 11, 2023 01:16 UTC