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(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 3 October 2024
1. Environment ministers of the G20 in a meeting to discuss climate change and sustainability
2. Various of Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva speaking
3. Representatives of the United States and Bangladesh
4. Representative of the United Kingdom
5. Various of representative of China and France
6. Marina Silva speaking, and shown in a screen behind her
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marina Silva, Brazil’s Environment minister:
“In the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes, record drought isolates communities and cities and triggers fires of enormous proportions. The situation is no different globally, showing in three dimensions the damage and suffering that average temperatures of 1.5°C (2.7°F) above pre-industrial levels are already causing to much of humanity.”
8. Marina Silva, João Paulo Capobianco, executive secretary of Brazil’s Minister of the Environment, and other government members in a press conference after the minister’s meeting
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) João Paulo Capobianco, executive secretary of Brazil’s Minister of the Environment:
"Unlike the Amazon Fund, which rewards Brazil if it succeeds in reducing deforestation, this initiative seeks to benefit all tropical forest nations that manage to protect their forest, for the intrinsic value of forests, regardless of carbon. It therefore needs international adhesion.”
10. Various of exteriors of G20 venue at the Museum of Tomorrow
STORYLINE:
Environment ministers of the Group of 20 nations agreed Thursday to support the creation of funding sources for ecosystem services, acknowledging Brazil's proposal to establish a trust fund for forest conservation.
The Brazilian initiative, known as the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, would reward tropical forest countries for protecting critical biomes.
Unlike the Amazon Fund, which rewards Brazil if it succeeds in reducing deforestation, the initiative would benefit all tropical forest nations based on the area preserved, paying local and Indigenous communities involved for maintaining ecosystems that “benefit everyone,” João Paulo Capobianco, executive secretary of Brazil’s Minister of the Environment, told journalists after the ministers' meeting.
The environment ministers of leading rich and developing countries assembled this week in Rio de Janeiro for four-day meetings to discuss climate change and sustainability.
The topic is one of Brazil's priorities as it hosts the G20 presidency until the end of the year, with heads of state convening in Rio next month.
Over the past few days, environment ministers discussed efforts to address climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation.
They also assessed public and private financing strategies to support climate change adaptation, transition policies and the disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations, Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva said in opening remarks at Thursday's meeting.
Marina Silva addressed extreme events that have afflicted her own country this year, including a deadly flood in southern Rio Grande do Sul state and an historic drought that helped spread massive wildfires across the country.
“In the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes, record drought isolates communities and cities and triggers wildfires of enormous proportions," Silva said.
The declaration emphasized scaling up mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Heads of state on Nov. 18-19 will assess the proposals their proxies have developed in the run-up to their meeting.
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(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 3 October 2024
1. Environment ministers of the G20 in a meeting to discuss climate change and sustainability
2. Various of Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva speaking
3. Representatives of the United States and Bangladesh
4. Representative of the United Kingdom
5. Various of representative of China and France
6. Marina Silva speaking, and shown in a screen behind her
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marina Silva, Brazil’s Environment minister:
“In the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes, record drought isolates communities and cities and triggers fires of enormous proportions. The situation is no different globally, showing in three dimensions the damage and suffering that average temperatures of 1.5°C (2.7°F) above pre-industrial levels are already causing to much of humanity.”
8. Marina Silva, João Paulo Capobianco, executive secretary of Brazil’s Minister of the Environment, and other government members in a press conference after the minister’s meeting
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) João Paulo Capobianco, executive secretary of Brazil’s Minister of the Environment:
"Unlike the Amazon Fund, which rewards Brazil if it succeeds in reducing deforestation, this initiative seeks to benefit all tropical forest nations that manage to protect their forest, for the intrinsic value of forests, regardless of carbon. It therefore needs international adhesion.”
10. Various of exteriors of G20 venue at the Museum of Tomorrow
STORYLINE:
Environment ministers of the Group of 20 nations agreed Thursday to support the creation of funding sources for ecosystem services, acknowledging Brazil's proposal to establish a trust fund for forest conservation.
The Brazilian initiative, known as the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, would reward tropical forest countries for protecting critical biomes.
Unlike the Amazon Fund, which rewards Brazil if it succeeds in reducing deforestation, the initiative would benefit all tropical forest nations based on the area preserved, paying local and Indigenous communities involved for maintaining ecosystems that “benefit everyone,” João Paulo Capobianco, executive secretary of Brazil’s Minister of the Environment, told journalists after the ministers' meeting.
The environment ministers of leading rich and developing countries assembled this week in Rio de Janeiro for four-day meetings to discuss climate change and sustainability.
The topic is one of Brazil's priorities as it hosts the G20 presidency until the end of the year, with heads of state convening in Rio next month.
Over the past few days, environment ministers discussed efforts to address climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation.
They also assessed public and private financing strategies to support climate change adaptation, transition policies and the disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations, Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva said in opening remarks at Thursday's meeting.
Marina Silva addressed extreme events that have afflicted her own country this year, including a deadly flood in southern Rio Grande do Sul state and an historic drought that helped spread massive wildfires across the country.
“In the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes, record drought isolates communities and cities and triggers wildfires of enormous proportions," Silva said.
The declaration emphasized scaling up mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Heads of state on Nov. 18-19 will assess the proposals their proxies have developed in the run-up to their meeting.
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