The world’s three largest rainforest nations will work to negotiate ‘a new sustainable funding mechanism’ to help developing countries preserve their biodiversity
The world’s three largest rainforest nations Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia on Monday formally launched a partnership to cooperate on forest preservation after a decade of on-off talks on a trilateral alliance.
The rapid destruction of rainforests, which through their dense vegetation serve as carbon sinks, releases planet-warming carbon dioxide, imperiling global climate targets. Regrowing previously deforested jungle has the benefit of removing greenhouse gas already in the atmosphere. “South-to-south cooperation - Brazil, Indonesia, DRC - is very natural,” the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Environment Minister Eve Bazaiba said prior to the signing.In the agreement, the alliance said that countries should be paid for reducing deforestation and maintaining forests as carbon sinks.
The G20 talks coincide with the second and final week of the COP27 United Nations climate summit in Egypt, where Lula’s environmental adviser Izabella Teixeira said Brazil would seek to get the involvement of other countries in the Amazon basin, which spans nine nations.
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