"No one in government knows the rainforest better than Marina, as she is best known in Brazil, who was born and raised in the Amazon. No one is more aware of the sacrifices that environmental and land defenders have made than this associate of the murdered activist Chico Mendes. And no one worked harder to raise ambition at Cop30, the first climate summit in the Amazon, than her."
"Our climate efforts continue, as ever, to buy time when we have no more time. In a tearful and defiant address to the closing plenary of the conference in Belem, Marina had told applauding delegates that she like many others had dreamed of achieving more when they attended the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, which set up UN conventions for the climate, biodiversity and desertification."
Cop30 convened in Belem as the first climate summit held in the Amazon, centering rainforest protection and urgent climate ambition. Marina Silva, Brazil’s environment minister, was born and raised in the Amazon and has deep knowledge of the region and ties to environmental defenders including Chico Mendes. Conference outcomes revealed that past climate and conservation efforts have been insufficient and have mainly bought time rather than solved structural drivers of loss. The Paris agreement and preceding measures reduced a projected 4C warming, averting extensive harm to lives, food and energy systems, and preventing greater land desertification. Maintaining the link between aspiration and action remains critical.
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