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Thursday briefing: Inside South America’s summit to save the Amazon

In today’s newsletter: After years of rampant exploitation under a far-right government, Brazil has brought together leaders to help secure the future of the world’s biggest rainforest – and create ‘a just ecological transition’

The Guardian - UK

‘Nature needs money’: Lula tells rich countries to pay up and protect world’s rainforests

Brazilian president says developed nations that over centuries have pumped emissions into the atmosphere must ‘pay their bit’

The Guardian - US

The Guardian view on the Amazon summit: rich nations must now step up

Editorial: The election of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has changed the environmental politics of the region. But more international assistance is needed

The Guardian - UK

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Western donors face fire of Amazon nations at Brazil summit

Donors from industrialised nations were under pressure on Wednesday at a top level conference on the Amazon to do more to help preserve the world's largest rainforest.

Radio France Internationale

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

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

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

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Leaders of Amazon nations gather in Brazil for summit on rainforest’s future

Conclave represents handbrake turn in Brazilian government policy since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took power

The Guardian - UK

Eight Amazon rainforest countries open summit in Belem, Brazil

It’s been 14 years since the eight countries of the Amazon region convened in a summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization

The Independent UK

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

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

Brazilian president's former lawyer takes seat as Supreme Court justice

The former personal lawyer of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has joined the ranks of the country’s Supreme Court amid criticism that their relationship poses a conflict of interest

The Independent UK

‘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

‘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

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The Independent UK

Brazil's Lula voices support for more countries joining BRICS group

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he supports more countries joining the BRICS group of large developing nations, which currently includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

The Conversation

Could Trump turn his politics of grievance into a get-out-of-jail card? Neither prosecution nor even jail time has prevented former leaders in Israel, Brazil and Kenya from mounting comebacks

Donald Trump has declared, “I am your retribution,” and it appears to be a guiding theme of his 2024 campaign.

The Guardian - UK

Amazon deforestation falls over 60% compared with last July, says Brazilian minister

Marina Silva welcomes progress but says climate crisis means upcoming regional summit needs to produce real action

The Guardian - UK

Joy and defiance at gathering led by Amazonian chief Raoni Metuktire

Climate concerns prominent as hundreds attend celebration of chief’s nominal 91st birthday

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The Independent UK

Brazil's Indigenous chief fighting to save Amazon urges President Lula to defend people's rights

An Indigenous leader who became a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon has called upon Brazil’s president to defend the rights of Indigenous people, including removing “invaders” from their territories and ending ongoing negotiations on carbon credits

The Guardian - UK

‘I want Lula to see this’: Indigenous chief continues fight for Amazon

Raoni Metuktire Kayapó has battled against deforestation all his life and is inviting Brazil’s president to see the damage to his land

The Independent UK

Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro fades from the spotlight

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is fading from the spotlight, showing the courts’ power over the electoral system and the political shortcomings of the increasingly powerless former leader

The Guardian - US

‘Football’s little ladies’: Brazilian girls prepare for future Women’s World Cups

Daminhas da Bola cuts through the engrained sexism of Brazilian society and trains tomorrow’s football superstars

The Independent UK

Brazilian players at the Women's World Cup urge fans back home to skip work to watch their matches

Brazil’s players have urged their fans back in South America to stay home from work and watch them begin their Women’s World Cup campaign against Panama

The Independent UK

Brazil's Lula places new restrictions on gun ownership, reversing predecessor's pro-gun policy

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a decree tightening restrictions on civilian access to guns in Brazil, in a move aimed at reversing the pro-firearms policies of his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro

Radio France Internationale

EU-LatAm summit condemns 'war in Ukraine' without mentioning Russia

A summit between European and Latin American countries closed with a watered-down statement that condemned the war in Ukraine but failed to mention Russia. Yet, critics see the summit as a step forward in relations between the EU and the global south.

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