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Last year's deforestation pledge is off to a slow start

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SAO PAULO: One year after more than 140 countries pledged to halt all deforestation by 2030, little has been done to finance protections or pass new conservation laws, experts say. The pledge was praised widely at last year's COP26 climate summit, particularly as Brazil, Indonesia and Congo all signed on.

The destruction has surged since right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019, rolling back environmental protections and seeking to develop the region. Despite this, Bolsonaro's government pledged last year to end Brazilian deforestation by 2028.

"Pressure from the international community on Lula is just as welcome," said ecologist Rita Mesquita with Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research."We need zero deforestation." "The commitment is to reverse the trend , and this will take a lot of work," Izabella Teixeira, former environment minister under Lula, told Reuters.

The government promised after COP26 to improve forest safeguards, but has yet to show any concrete efforts to do so. Instead, Congo drew international condemnation for a plan to open areas of pristine rainforest and carbon-rich peatlands to oil and gas drilling.

 

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