Reuters: G7 nations close to agreement on tackling Amazon fires: Macron
BIARRITZ, France (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday the leaders of the world’s major industrialized nations were close to an agreement on how to help fight the Amazon forest fires and try to repair the devastation.
“There’s a real convergence to say: ‘let’s all agree to help those countries hit by these fires’,” he told reporters in Biarritz, which is hosting the annual summit of leaders from the Group of Seven nations.
He said the G7 countries comprising the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Britain and Canada, were finalizing a possible deal on “technical and financial help”.
Macron shunted the Amazon fires to the top of the summit agenda after declaring them a global emergency, and kicked off discussions about the disaster at a welcome dinner for fellow leaders on Saturday.
An EU official, who declined to be named, said the G7 leaders had agreed to do everything they could to help tackle the fires, giving Macron a mandate to contact all the countries in the Amazon region to see what was needed.
“It was the easiest part of the talks,” the official said.
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WNU Editor: For the past week I have been reading non-stop news reports the current fires in the Amazon regions are unprecedented. Bu now we are learning from scinetists that these fires are actually nothing new ....
Scientists studying satellite images of the fires in the Amazon rain forest said most of the fires are burning on agricultural land where the forest had already been cleared through years of deforestation. https://t.co/Az7WWiCVtr— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 24, 2019
#AmazonFire #AmazonRainForest According to NASA: "As of August 16, 2019, satellite observations indicated that total fire activity in the Amazon basin was slightly below average in comparison to the past 15 years." https://t.co/okf6BmC8qU— Jesse Ferrell (@WeatherMatrix) August 21, 2019
Update: On a side note. The Chinese are saying that we may be entering a cooling trend .... China scientists warn of global cooling trick up nature’s sleeve (SCMP).
3 comments:
" Look over there! " - Macron
Macron is a fraud.
He is pushing the Amazon fire agenda so people do not talking a about anemic GDP growth, high unemployment in France and rising crime in France.
Map shows that fires in previously cleared land. Nothing new. Furore is yet another fraud by enviro activists.
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I was a believer once upon a time, then along came Al, etc., etc.
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