Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opens an Amazon rainforest summit in Belem, in northern Brazil, in a "context of severe worsening of the climate crisis" as South American leaders are set to seek a roadmap to save the Amazon.
It is the first summit in 14 years for the eight-nation Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, set up in 1995 by the countries that share the Amazon basin: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
