The debt swap for nature conservation, proposed by Colombia, will be included in the declaration meeting of the Summit of Brazil, as one of the financing mechanisms for the Amazon.
This was reported this Thursday by the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhamad, assuring that the proposals compiled by Colombia at the Leticia Summit will be fundamental for the construction of an agreement that saves the Amazon, in Belém do Pará.
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In Brazil, efforts will be made to strengthen environmental protection mechanisms and work on a joint proposal against deforestation in the Amazon.
The top, which will take place from August 8 to 9will bring together different social and political actors from the eight countries that make up the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (OTCA).
In the previous meeting held in Leticia, Colombia assumed political commitments focused on reversing the deterioration of the Amazon Biome and work on its restoration by 2025 and 2030.
This point of no return could put water security issues at risk for Amazonian cities and Unusual global climate risks.
“A very strong message will be sent to the world of political will, of the political decision to advance in these goals firm until 2030 and the need for there to be a global concurrence for this purpose,” said Muhamad.
Proposal for the Brazil summit
The document approved in this Summit will be presented during the next United Nations Assembly, in September, in New York, ahead of COP28, organized by the United Arab Emirates in Dubai.
Within the framework of the summit, the Amazon Dialogues will be held on August 4 and 6 in Belém, a set of proposals from civil society to guide new strategies in the region. Additionally, the presidents of the eight countries they will meet on August 7 and 8 to sign a joint declaration.
Congo and Indonesia will join the dialogue on the last daySaint Vincent and the Grenadines, France, Germany and Norway, as well as the president of COP28 and representatives of development banks such as IBGE, IDB and NBD (BRICS Bank), among others.
The summit will also aim to strengthen ACTO and define a common position of the member countries.
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Minister Muhamad stressed the importance of reaching an agreement that gives a vision in the midst of the climate crisis to save the Amazon jungle and dignify living conditions, recognizing the social inequality in each of the countries and the need to work on a social equity agenda.
“The institutionality that wants to be strengthened with financial mechanisms, with greater operational capacity, with processes of institutionalization that open participation to both scientists as well as civil society”, explained the head of the Environment portfolio.
For the Ministerthe citizenship of the Amazonian peoples and the need to confront Together, transnational crime has an influence that crosses borders. The countries have not been coordinated to the same magnitude of the challenge, ”she pointed out.
Colombia proposed measures such as zero deforestation by 2030sustainable economic and social alternatives, recognition of the water cycle in the Amazon, binding participation and social empowerment, and avoiding the expansion of the frontier of hydrocarbon extractivism in the region.
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