Amazon summit reaction: we stand in solidarity with ‘developing forest countries’

Date: 10 August 2023
Campaigns: Climate

Dorothy Grace Guerrero, Head of policy and advocacy at Global Justice Now said:

Preserving the Amazon and the rainforests of the world is key to the well-being and livelihoods of Indigenous communities, and in protecting our planet from further climate catastrophe. It is crucial to acknowledge the stewardship role by indigenous people in ensuring the sustainability of the Amazon and other rainforests. The ‘Developing Forest Countries’ are right to point out the failures of rich nations to fulfil our climate financing obligations.

“We stand in solidarity with their calls. It’s more than time for rich nations to step up – to pay loss and damage and cancel debt which extracts from poorer nations and prevents climate action. Furthermore, currently governments are powerless to stop the impunity of transnational corporations’ operations in rainforests, which undermine human rights and already weak environmental standards. We need a UN Binding Treaty to truly hold corporations to account and have binding rules for corporations on human rights. The future of our planet and collective wellbeing is quite literally at stake.”

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