Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addresses the audience at the summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), in Belem, Brazil August 8, 2023. Ricardo Stuckert/Brazil Presidency/Handout via REUTERS
Twelve forest countries called on industrialized countries to fulfill their climate finance obligations and provide $200 billion per year in biodiversity funding by 2030 at the Amazon conference in Brazil on Wednesday.
The call comes from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Guyana, Indonesia, Peru, the Republic of Congo, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Venezuela.
