11 minutes agoG7 leaders agree on a plan to help the Amazon states fight fires
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(7 years ago)The G7 countries have been hired into a package of nearly 20m euros to help Amazon countries immediately cope with fires and launch a long-term global initiative to protect forests. The assistance plan, announced by the French and Chilean president during today, will [...]
The assistance plan, announced by the French and Chilean president during the day, would include the reforestation programme, and would be unveiled before the UN General Assembly next month.
“We must respond to the call to do something about the forests that are burning in the Amazon,” said Emmanuel Macron, president of France, after a meeting with the world's most industrialized democracies.
Macron said US President Donald Trump had not participated in the G7 session for climate change, biodiversity and oceans, but said his “kipi was there”, and that the US supported the initiative.
Satellite data has recorded more than 41,000 fires in the Amazon region so far, and more than half of them occurred this month. Experts say most of the fires were launched by farmers or farm workers who were clearing existing lands, writes The Guardian, translates Periscopi.
Environmental experts have said that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's policies have reduced environmental protection, and have fostered deforestation and further research, thus contributing to the intensity of the fires.
France and Ireland have threatened to block European trade exchanges with Brazil and three other American-Latin countries if Bolsonaro did not change the course of his actions.
Macron's critics got Bolsonaro's attention, who accused him of colonialism first. /Periscope
