The eight Amazon countries, together with the Republic of the Congo, Indonesia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, reaffirmed this Wednesday their commitment against the climate crisis, but insisted that it will not be enough without the necessary cooperation from the richest nations.
The renewal of the political commitment in favor of the environment on the part of those countries, which treasure the largest tropical forests on the planet, was overturned in the statement “United by our forests”, released after a meeting held by presidents and official delegates in the Brazilian city of Belém.
The ten-point communiqué emphasizes that “forests can be centers of sustainable development and sources of solutions to national and global sustainability challenges, reconciling economic prosperity with environmental protection and social well-being.”
The declaration also reiterates the criticism of the most developed countries, already expressed in a statement signed by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela this Tuesday, at the summit of leaders of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization. (OTCA), also held in Belém.
In this sense, the so-called expanded Amazon Summit expresses its “Concern over non-compliance by developed countries with their commitments to provide official development assistance”.
It specifies that it refers to the agreement for “provide $100 billion in climate finance a year in new and additional resources to developing countries” to finance the preservation of the most sensitive ecosystems on the planet.
It also expands thatworry” to the “failure by some developed countries to meet their mitigation targets”, and emphasizes that the richest nations must also “accelerate the decarbonization of their economies” to achieve “neutrality” of polluting emissions “Without delay” and “before 2050″.
In this context, the document maintains that “international cooperation is the most effective way” to contain the degradation of tropical forests and strengthen the fight against the climate crisis.
In another critical message to the most developed countries, the text “sentence” measures “taken to combat climate change and protect the environment, including unilateral ones, that constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on international trade”.
It also stresses that “preferential access of forest products to markets“of the richest nations”It will be an important tool for the economic development of developing countries” and will also contribute to containing the climate crisis.
The declaration also invites other developing nations with tropical forests to join the dialogue started in Belém in order to agree on common positions in international forums, among which they cite the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP28), which will will be held this year in Dubai.
Source: EFE
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