Lula seeks roadmap to save Amazon at 'urgent' summit with South American leaders

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened the Amazon summit in Belem, in northern Brazil, in a "context of severe worsening of the climate crisis" as the South American leaders will seek a roadmap to save the Amazon rainforest.

Lula vowed bold action to stop the destruction of the world's biggest rainforest. Colombia and Peru presidents also shared their views to save the Amazon rainforest. For the Colombian president Gustavo Petro, the solutions is to leave "coal, oil and gas" while the Peruvian president wishes to "develop public policies that involve all levels of government" to protect the world's largest rainforest.

Home to an estimated 10 percent of Earth's biodiversity, 50 million people and hundreds of billions of trees, the vast Amazon is a vital carbon sink, reducing global warming.