President guillermo lasso. Mr lasso vowed that this crime will not go unpunished. He called for an an urgent meeting of his top officials to address the killing. The countrys attorney general s office said on social media that the suspect in the attack had died from injuries sustained in a shootout with police. Ecuador s election is scheduled to take place on august 20th. Well have more on this story as it develops. Wildfires are raging across the us state of hawaii. Officials there say that at least six people have died and many are injured, with some in a critical condition. These are the scenes out of maui and the big island. The Historic Town of lahaina was one of the hardest hit, with reports that its now mostly reduced to ash. Crews there and across the islands are engaged in Search And Rescue, with evacuations underway for more than 13 thousand people. But as residents try to escape, some are finding that many of the major roads are blocked and too dangerous to use. Lieutenant g
The amazon from reaching, quote, a point of no return. The lengthy roadmap outlined in the city of belem promotes sustainable development, an end to deforestation, and fighting the organised crime that fuels it. Lets take a look at whats at stake the amazon stretches nearly Seven Million square kilometres, or nearly Three Million square miles. About two thirds of that is in brazil. Another seven countries and one terrority share the remaining third. Under brazils former president jair bolsonaro, years of deforestation in the amazon worsened. The orange on this map shows the areas of deforestation between 2019 and 2022 in the state of para, where the summit is being held. But new data shows a positive shift. Deforestation in the amazon fell by 66 last month compared to the year before. Its now at its lowest rate in six years. Our correspondent katy watson is at the summit in the amazon, and has more. We have had day one of the summit and already the countries participating have issued a
there were many pledges connected to nature on mangroves. there was a mangrove breakthrough. there were pledges, as you mentioned, in the pacific in the formal text, we saw some recognition of nature. we have been seen that since the cop in glasgow. it s time to now operationalize those pledges and those promises and those good intentions because now we have a framework, the global biodiversity framework that came out of kunming last year and we need to connect that with this convention here to maximise the benefits of nature to society. so this is very, very important. and we also saw a call for countries to reduce deforestation by 2030, to eliminate deforestation, and we think that s important. in glasgow we had a pledge that was outside the formal negotiations and here it made it to the negotiation somehow. briefly, if you don t mind, but you re from brazil. the cop30 will be hosted in brazil, actually in the amazon. what s the significance of that, especially given the im
Brazil on Monday announced it would partner with the world's biggest financial climate coalition to turbocharge funding for clean energy and efforts to restore nature, such as reforesting the Amazon rainforest.