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• Indigenous communities demand greater change as Amazon rainforest summit begins – video

  08-08-2023 22:12
  
  Amazon nations' leaders have gathered in the Brazilian city of Belém for a rare summit about the future of the world's largest rainforest amid growing concern over the global climate emergency. The environmental summit convened by Brazil’s leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, represents a handbrake turn in Brazilian government policy after four years of Amazon destruction under the country's previous leader, Jair Bolsonaro. In the run-up to the summit, thousands of I
  
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• Brazilian president Lula pledges ‘new Amazon dream’ at rainforest summit

  08-08-2023 19:08
  
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva offered ambitious plan for future of Amazon forest, promising to repair damage done by Jair BolsonaroThe Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vowed to haul the Amazon out of centuries of violence, economic “plundering” and environmental devastation and into “a new Amazon dream” at the start of a major regional summit on the world’s largest rainforest.Addressing South American leaders gathered in the Brazilian cit
  
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• Leaders of Amazon nations gather in Brazil for summit on rainforest’s future

  08-08-2023 15:09
  
  Conclave represents handbrake turn in Brazilian government policy since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took powerThe leaders of Amazon nations including Brazil, Colombia and Peru have gathered in the Brazilian city of Belém for a rare conclave about the future of the world’s largest rainforest amid growing concern over the global climate emergency.The environmental summit – convened by Brazil’s leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – represents a ha
  
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