‘Nature needs money’: Lula tells rich countries to pay up and protect world’s rainforests

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The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told developed countries to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to protecting the world’s remaining tropical forests, as major rainforest nations demanded hundreds of billions of dollars of climate financing and a greater role in how those resources are spent.

Brazil, Indonesia and the DRC are home to 52% of the world’s remaining primary tropical forests, vast carbon sinks which play a critical role in efforts to control climate change.

In a declaration entitled “United For Our Forests”, the governments of those countries reaffirmed their commitment to reducing deforestation and finding ways to reconcile economic prosperity with environmental protection.

Activists called that declaration a significant first step in joint efforts to fight the climate crisis but voiced frustration at its failure to mention the phasing out of fossil fuel exploration in the Amazon or include a common commitment to halting deforestation by 2030.

The three countries, home to about half of the world’s tropical rainforest into the Amazon, Congo basin and Borneo and Sumatra, agreed to work together in talks around carbon markets and finance for conservation.

“We’re going to really fight to expel the narco-traffickers and gun-runners and organized crime from the forests of this country,” Lula said, as federal police announced they had destroyed dozens of gold-mining dredges in the remote jungle region where British journalist Dom Phillips was murdered last year with the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

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