Speaking at the High Level Regional Dialogue, The Amazon as a Pillar of Balance, organized by Colombia in the context of COP27, the President stressed that the first action should be to restore the ACTO with its historical capacity to preserve the Amazon and the quantity of its proposals. .
Maduro, who is here participating in the high-level segment of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), considered this meeting one of the most important summits.
He emphasized that if we can get something really tangible and profound from this climate summit in Egypt, it will be the commitment of humanity to take action and put the renewal and restoration of the Amazon region as a priority on the presidential and social agenda of our countries. .
He said that with knowledge of the enormous impacts of this part of the world not only on the life of our continent, but also on the life of mankind.
The Venezuelan president described the assumption of the presidency by his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro, the arrival of Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and the strong environmental movements in the Amazon region as good news for the region. Brazilian Amazon.
He pointed out that humanity has been constantly discussing the phenomenon of climate change and the destruction of the balance of the planet and nature for at least three decades.
He commented that scientists and researchers from the United Nations revealed in a recent report the damage caused by the production of greenhouse gases, pollution and the warming of the seas and the planet, and practically canceled the deadlines for reversing these phenomena.
The Venezuelan president emphasized that if we South Americans have any responsibility, it is to stop the destruction of the Amazon and to initiate a coordinated, efficient, conscious and active recovery process in that part of the world.
He congratulated Petro for taking this initiative in the context of COP27, and said that with him we would “never camp in the ranks of pessimism or doubt”, we always lag behind hope, beyond the light that hope gives.
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