"Deforestation, drought and the climate crisis are pushing the Amazon to what could become a tipping point, where it changes state from a rainforest to a savannah ecosystem, and from a massive absorber of carbon to releasing carbon into the atmosphere, which would have devastating consequences for the whole world. Staving off such tipping points is why, scientists warn, countries must strive to hold temperatures to 1.5C above preindustrial levels, or as near as remains possible."
"The world leaders who included the UK's Keir Starmer, the EU's Ursula von der Leyen and Germany's Friedrich Merz but not China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi and the famously climate-denying Donald Trump have left behind their ministers and high-ranking officials in Belem, where more than 190 countries will spend the next two weeks arguing over how to salvage the 1.5C goal."
About 50 world leaders flew to preliminary COP meetings in Belem to confront the climate crisis while the Amazon shows visible damage from above. Deforestation, drought and warming push the Amazon toward a tipping point that could convert rainforest into savannah and shift it from absorbing carbon to releasing it, with severe global impacts. Scientists stress that keeping warming near 1.5C is essential to avoid multiple tipping points, including coral die-off, ice-sheet melt and methane release from tundra. More than 190 countries will negotiate in Belem amid political and corporate resistance.
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