EXPLAINED: 31 | Vintage Vibes

Amazon leaders fail to commit to end deforestation by 2030

Eight South American presidents including Brazil’s Lula say rich countries need to pledge more resources to help protect rainforest

The Guardian - UK · Aug 9, 2023

Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change, urge action from industrialized world

Eight Amazon nations have called on industrialized countries to do more to help preserve the world’s largest rainforest as they meet in a major summit in Brazil to seek to chart a common course on how to combat climate change

The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2023

Brazilian president Lula pledges ‘new Amazon dream’ at rainforest summit

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sets out ambitious programme to repair damage done by Bolsonaro and tackle environmental crime

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2023

An Indigenous leader has inspired an Amazon city to grant personhood to an endangered river

In late June, the Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim approved a law that designates the Komi Memem River “as a living entity and subject to rights.”

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2023

Progress on slowing deforestation could boost climate efforts, say experts

Reduction in primary forest loss in Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as Brazil and Colombia, offers hope for tropical forests across the world

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2023

Indigenous activists gather in Brazil to discuss future of the Amazon

Campaigners voice hopes and fears for the rainforest before leaders of eight Amazon nations attend summit in Belém

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2023

Governments are gathering to talk about the Amazon rainforest. Why is it so important to protect?

Representatives of eight South American governments are gathering in Brazil this week to talk about the Amazon rainforest

The Independent UK · Aug 6, 2023

Look at the crisis in the Amazon and understand the stakes: we’re battling for life itself

At this week’s Amazon summit, the world must stand with Indigenous peoples – and demand protection for the rainforest, says actor and activist Mark Ruffalo

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2023

‘Winter is disappearing’: South America hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal heatwave

Buenos Aires records hottest start to August in 117 years, Chile sees highs towards 40C and Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil also bake

The Guardian - US · Aug 3, 2023

‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazon

Four years in, it has become clearer that the future of the forest and the climate crisis depends on politics

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3, 2023