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After Climate Summit, a Promising New Tool for Latin America
April 29, 2021
A new climate financing fund is not interested in past wins and plans to flow money to cut deforestation now. A vessel transports logs on a raft in the region of Baixo Tocantins in Pará, Brazil.Photo by TARSO SARRAF/AFP via Getty Images
RIO DE JANEIRO – Pledges made at the global Climate Summit convened by the U.S. on Earth Day marking the welcome return of the U.S. to the efforts to address climate change were met by many with skepticism. Headlines around the world focused on the promises made by presidents, kings and prime ministers, and whether they would actually translate into action.
We need more rewilding and connections to nature, says Enrique Ortiz
Enrique Ortiz is a Peruvian biologist who has been working in conservation in Latin America since the 1970s. Today he works at the Andes Amazon Fund, a philanthropic initiative that has helped establish 79 protected areas and get 18 Indigenous territories titled.
Ortiz says the pandemic has been “terrible and tragic” for both people and the environment, with a rise in poverty, violence against environmental defenders, and environmental crime and degradation.
But he also notes surprising resilience where communities and local governments have continued protecting wilderness despite COVID-19.
Ortiz spoke about these issues and more during an April 2021 conversation with Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler.
Getting to zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030 EJINSIGHT ejinsight.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ejinsight.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Amazon Basin is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point. That should concern everyone, because what happens in the Amazon has planetary implications.
Spanning eight South American countries and French Guiana, the Amazon contains more than 60 percent of the world’s tropical forests, 20 percent of its fresh water and about 10 percent of biodiversity.
As a result of land speculation and insatiable global demand for meat, soy, gold, and other commodities, roughly 20 percent of the world’s largest tropical forest has already been razed. A further 5 percent rise in deforestation levels could trigger catastrophic dieback, essentially dooming the 2015 Paris