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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva poses for a family photo with leaders of countries attending the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) summit in Belem, in Northern Brazil. The eight countries have agreed to launch an alliance to fight deforestation in the Amazon, vowing to stop the world's biggest rainforest from reaching "a point of no return." IMAGES
Eight South American countries are meeting in Brazil to thrash out co-ordinated policies for the Amazon basin.
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is greeted by UAE counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as he arrives at COP28 in Dubai. IMAGES
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urges wealthy nations to fulfill their promises to fund developing countries' fight against climate change, at a summit on saving the world's tropical forests. "It's not that Brazil needs money. It's not that Colombia or Venezuela need money. Mother Nature needs money, it needs financing, because industrial development has destroyed it over the past 200 years," Lula says at a news conference in Belem.
Speaking to reporters after Wednesday’s meeting, Brazil's President Lula da Silva said developed nations must make good on their pledges to provide monetary support for forest protection.
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