Blinken says the US has plans to curb Amazon deforestation
Saturday, October 23rd 2021 - 09:13 UT
Blinken said the full plan was to be disclosed “in the coming days”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Thursday announced while on an official trip to Colombia that his country would launch a regional pact to reduce deforestation throughout the Amazon. Blinken's words came a few weeks before the UN environmental summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and were regarded as an effort to mitigate one of the leading causes of global warming.
“We can take great steps to deal with the climate crisis,” Blinken said after a tour of the Botanical Garden in Bogotá. Blinken also explained his country would finalize “in the next few days” a “new alliance specifically focused on fighting deforestation associated with the extraction of raw materials.”
The initiative will provide “useful information to companies so that they can effectively reduce their dependence on deforestation.” It will also include financial support for protected areas inhabited by indigenous peoples and small farmers, it was reported. Tropical forests are crucial for the environment because they retain large amounts of carbon, responsible for global warming.
During his visit to Colombia, Blinken refused to answer a question about the criticism against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been accused of encouraging agribusiness in forest areas and also of instigating the murders of environmentalists in the country with the largest territory in Amazonia.
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Sane people in Brazil would never have allowed this to happen. They just don't have sheer power over those with destructive greed driving them at the cost of the planet and all living things.
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