The world's three largest rainforest nations Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia on Monday formally launched a partnership to cooperate on forest preservation.
Reuters reported in August that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, elected as Brazil's president at the end of October, wouldwith the other two nations to pressure the rich world to finance forest conservation.
The G20 talks coincide with the second and final week of the COP27 United Nations climate summit in Egypt, where Lula's environmental adviser Izabella Teixeira said Brazil would seek to get the involvement of other countries in the Amazon basin, which spans nine nations.
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