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🇧🇷 Eight Amazon rainforest countries open summit in Belem, Brazil
For the first time in 14 years, presidents of the South American nations home to the Amazon rainforest are converging to chart a common course for protection of the bioregion and address organized crime.
The summit Tuesday and Wednesday in the Brazilian city of Belem is a meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he hopes the Belem summit will awaken the organization that has met only three times in 45 years.
It’s Lula’s second attempt to form an Amazon bloc. He tried back when the last Amazon summit was held in 2009, during his first presidency, but was joined by only one other president from the region, Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana.
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For the first time in 14 years, presidents of the South American nations home to the Amazon rainforest are converging to chart a common course for protection of the bioregion and address organized crime.
The summit Tuesday and Wednesday in the Brazilian city of Belem is a meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he hopes the Belem summit will awaken the organization that has met only three times in 45 years.
It’s Lula’s second attempt to form an Amazon bloc. He tried back when the last Amazon summit was held in 2009, during his first presidency, but was joined by only one other president from the region, Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana.
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🇵🇪🇺🇸 Peru and US strike $20 mln Amazon-focused debt for nature deal
The United States has struck a deal with Peru that will help the Latin American country restore and protect some of its parts of the Amazon rainforest. The agreements will reduce Peru's debt payments to the United States by over $20 million over the next 13 years.
The debt-for-nature swap, as these kinds of agreements are known will put money towards conserving protected areas of the Amazon.
It is made possible through contributions of $15 million by the U.S. government under the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Act and a combined donation of $3 million from four international non-governmental organizations.
This is the third debt-for-nature swap between the United States and Peru and took around two years to finalize. According to the Treasury, the first two swaps occurred in 2002 and 2008 and together generated about $36 million for the restoration and conservation.
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The United States has struck a deal with Peru that will help the Latin American country restore and protect some of its parts of the Amazon rainforest. The agreements will reduce Peru's debt payments to the United States by over $20 million over the next 13 years.
The debt-for-nature swap, as these kinds of agreements are known will put money towards conserving protected areas of the Amazon.
It is made possible through contributions of $15 million by the U.S. government under the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Act and a combined donation of $3 million from four international non-governmental organizations.
This is the third debt-for-nature swap between the United States and Peru and took around two years to finalize. According to the Treasury, the first two swaps occurred in 2002 and 2008 and together generated about $36 million for the restoration and conservation.
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#US #Peru #Amazon
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