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AP: As rainforests worldwide disappear, burn and degrade, a summit to protect them opens in Brazzaville
As rainforests worldwide disappear, burn and degrade, a summit to protect them opens in BrazzavilleBY CARLOS MUREITHI
Updated 10:56 AM EDT, October 26, 2023
Leaders from countries with the largest tropical forest basins are meeting in the Republic of Congo Thursday to work together to protect the forests from deforestation and destruction.
Delegates from Brazil, Indonesia, Republic of Congo and dozens of other countries at the Three Basins Summit in Brazzaville are hoping to form a coalition of leaders from the basins of the Amazon, the Congo and Borneo-Mekong in Southeast Asia to discuss how to finance the protection of their wildlife-rich regions, which are also major sites for storing planet-warming carbon dioxide.
Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Republic of Congo’s environment minister, said the summit is a chance “to set in motion an historic movement and to initiate cooperation between our three basins.”
She added that basin countries “have a responsibility as guardians of global biodiversity, as the lungs of the planet and as regulators of the Earth’s carbon balance” to maintain the ecosystems for both the 1.5 billion that live in the regions and the rest of humanity that rely on them.
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Updated 10:56 AM EDT, October 26, 2023
Leaders from countries with the largest tropical forest basins are meeting in the Republic of Congo Thursday to work together to protect the forests from deforestation and destruction.
Delegates from Brazil, Indonesia, Republic of Congo and dozens of other countries at the Three Basins Summit in Brazzaville are hoping to form a coalition of leaders from the basins of the Amazon, the Congo and Borneo-Mekong in Southeast Asia to discuss how to finance the protection of their wildlife-rich regions, which are also major sites for storing planet-warming carbon dioxide.
Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Republic of Congo’s environment minister, said the summit is a chance “to set in motion an historic movement and to initiate cooperation between our three basins.”
She added that basin countries “have a responsibility as guardians of global biodiversity, as the lungs of the planet and as regulators of the Earth’s carbon balance” to maintain the ecosystems for both the 1.5 billion that live in the regions and the rest of humanity that rely on them.
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