This year, Brazil is hosting the biggest climate talks: COP30. Instead of leading the way to a fair and just energy transition, they are auctioning the Amazon forest to fossil fuel companies with no plan to stop. But there’s still time. The federal government and the Ministers have the power to make a plan now and stop any further fossil fuel expansion. Tell the federal government and the Ministers: we need an Energy Transition Plan now!
#Kayapó #ForestDefenders Urge #UnitedNations to Help Halt Illegal #GoldMining in #Brazil
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
July 23, 2024
GENEVA -- "#Indigenous from Brazil urged the United Nations to join them and demand Brazil halt illegal gold mining, and its #mercury #contamination, now destroying the ancestral homelands of #Kayapó, #Yanomami and #Munduruku Peoples, during the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
"Doto Takak Ire, Mebêngôkre, said, 'The Kayapó are still warriors and we will always be defenders of the forests.'
"'We do not want any kind of #exploitation of #NaturalResources in our territories. We want the #Amazon protected, so that our children and all the children of the world can grow up healthy.'"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07/kayapo-forest-defenders-urge-united.html
#NoGoldMining #NoMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheAmazon #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #CulturalGenocide #WaterIsLife #Pollution
🌿 Great news for the Amazon! Deforestation alerts have hit a five-year low despite challenging drought conditions. This positive trend shows our efforts are making a difference in protecting this vital ecosystem. Let's keep pushing for a greener future! 🌳 Read more about it here. - https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/despite-drought-amazon-deforestation-alerts-hit-five-year-low/
#AmazonRainforest #Deforestation #EnvironmentalSuccess #ProtectTheAmazon #GreenFuture #Sustainability #EcoWarriors #ClimateAction #Conservation #SaveOurPlanet #GoodNews
Month-over-month deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon declined for the 13th consecutive month as forest clearing in Earth’s largest rainforest fell to the lowest level in five years. This decrease occurred despite a historic drought in the region, according to data published on Friday by Brazil’s national space research institute, INPE. In April, the area of […]
#Brazil 's president-elect, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is renewing calls to #protect the #Amazon and rein in the #deforestation . #Climate #scientists are encouraged but so far there aren't a lot of specifics of how this might happen. @NPR Kirk Siegler traveled to a remote Amazonian #ResearchStation that is also #threatened by #illegal #logging and talks to host Aaron Scott about his trip.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1143128078/the-hope-for-slowing-amazon-deforestation
#StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #ClimateAction #rainforest #ProtectTheAmazon
Brazil's president-elect, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is renewing calls to protect the Amazon and reign in the deforestation. Climate scientists are encouraged but so far there aren't a lot of specifics of how this might happen. NPR's Kirk Siegler traveled to a remote Amazonian research station that is also threatened by illegal logging and talks to host Aaron Scott about his trip.
Green Peace
RT https://nitter.42l.fr/Greenpeace/status/1543346279975047168
“We don’t really have much of a choice, there are climate and biodiversity emergencies knocking at our door, and the destruction of the Amazon only accelerates them.” We must #ProtectTheAmazon.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/54542/amazon-we-need-expedition/
« It’s great to see #NaturalClimateSolutions finally getting the attention they deserve. Here is why #forests are key to #ClimateAction and achieving #1o5 https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/opinion/forests-technology-stop-climate-change-181105081303837.html #ProtectTheAmazon »
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