{"id":115955,"date":"2023-08-08T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T06:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/two-day-amazon-summit-to-focus-on-climate-change-and-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T06:05:46","slug":"two-day-amazon-summit-to-focus-on-climate-change-and-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/two-day-amazon-summit-to-focus-on-climate-change-and-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-day Amazon summit to focus on climate change and human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115955\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nEight South American countries are meeting in Brazil to thrash out co-ordinated policies for the Amazon basin. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hosting a regional summit this week with planetary stakes, as leaders of the countries that share the Amazon seek a roadmap to save the world&#8217;s biggest rainforest. The meeting of the eight-nation Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation on Tuesday and Wednesday in Belem, capital of the Amazon state of Para, will serve as something of a dress rehearsal for the COP30 UN climate talks, which the city will also host in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It is the 28-year-old organisation&#8217;s first summit since 2009, as Lula seeks to deliver on his pledge that &#8220;Brazil is back&#8221; in the fight against climate change after a period of surging destruction in the Amazon under his far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. With its hundreds of billions of carbon-absorbing trees, the Amazon is a key buffer against global warming. But scientists warn deforestation is pushing it dangerously close to a &#8220;tipping point,&#8221; beyond which trees would die off and release their carbon stores back into the atmosphere, with catastrophic consequences for the climate.<\/p>\n<p>Already, carbon emissions from the Amazon increased by 117% in 2020 compared to the annual average for 2010 to 2018, according to the latest figures from researchers at Brazil&#8217;s national space agency, INPE. Veteran leftist Lula, who returned to office in January, said he planned to work together with the group&#8217;s other members &#8211; Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela &#8211; to develop the Amazon basin &#8220;without destroying&#8221; it. Leaders are due to discuss strategies to fight deforestation and organised crime, and seek sustainable development for the region, home to 50 million people &#8211; including hundreds of Indigenous groups seen as crucial to protecting the forest. The summit will conclude with a joint declaration, expected to be &#8220;ambitious&#8221; and set out &#8220;an agenda to guide countries in the coming years,&#8221; said Brazilian foreign ministry official Gisela Padovan.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, which holds around 60% of the Amazon, has pledged to eradicate illegal deforestation by 2030, and is pushing other countries to follow suit. Deforestation is driven mainly by cattle ranching, though it is fueled by a murky mix of corruption, land-grabbing and organised crime whose tentacles extend to the illegal traffic in drugs, arms, timber and gold. In Brazil, the world&#8217;s top exporter of beef and soy, the destruction has already wiped out around one-fifth of the rainforest. But after a 75% jump in average annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon under Bolsonaro (2019-2022) versus the previous decade, there are signs of progress. From January to July, deforestation fell by 42.5% from the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the summit, more than 50 environmental groups called on the region&#8217;s governments to adopt a plan &#8220;to stop the Amazon from reaching a point of no return.&#8221; The petition, published by the Climate Observatory, calls on countries to join Brazil&#8217;s pledge for zero illegal deforestation by 2030, strengthen Indigenous rights and adopt &#8220;effective measures to fight environmental crimes.&#8221; Lula said Thursday he was confident that &#8220;for the first time, jointly and cohesively,&#8221; the region would &#8220;accept its responsibility&#8221; to fight rampant crime in the rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>Lula insists responsibility for saving the Amazon extends worldwide. &#8220;The world needs to help us preserve and develop the Amazon,&#8221; he said Wednesday. &#8220;Investing is cheap if it&#8217;s a matter of saving the rainforest.&#8221; Paola Arias, a climate scientist at the University of Antioquia in Colombia, underlined that the cattle and crops produced in the Amazon are often exported abroad. Deforestation &#8220;is not just the Amazon countries&#8217; fault,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s leveraged by a world agro-industry that generates profits for the global north. Those connections to Europe, North America and Australia have to be part of the debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Six presidents are due to attend the summit, with Ecuador and Suriname represented by cabinet ministers. Norway and Germany, key contributors to Brazil&#8217;s Amazon Fund to protect the rainforest, are also invited, along with France, which has a share of the Amazon via the territory of French Guiana. Brazil also invited tropical rainforest nations Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/08\/two-day-amazon-summit-to-focus-on-climate-change-and-human-rights\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/two-day-amazon-summit-to-focus-on-climate-change-and-human-rights\/\">Two-day Amazon summit to focus on climate change and human rights<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1177,516,612,383,976,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-115955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-human-rights","tag-summit","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}