AMAZON
COOPERATION TREATY ORGANISATION - INTERNATIONAL
News: Amazon nations seek common voice on
climate change, urge developed world to help protect rainforest
What's
in the news?
● Leaders
from South American nations that are home to the Amazon challenged developed
countries to do more to stop the massive destruction of the world’s largest
rainforest, a task they said can’t fall to just a few when the crisis has been
caused by so many.
Key
takeaways:
● Assembling
in the Brazilian city of Belem, the members of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty
Organization, or ACTO, also sought to chart a common course on how to combat
climate change, hoping a united front would give them a major voice in global
talks.
Amazon
Cooperation Treaty Organization:
● It
is an intergovernmental organization formed by the eight Amazonian countries to ensure the sustainable development of the
Amazon natural forest.
● It
is the only socio environmental block in Latin America.
Established
in - 1995
Members:
● It
consists of eight members: Bolivia,
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Headquarters: Brasilia, Brazil.
Objectives:
● Actions
to preserve, protect, conserve and sustainably use the forest, biodiversity and
water resources of the Amazon.
● Promote coordination of plans and
programs of Member Countries for the development of Amazonian
populations.
● Promote and disseminate the cultures
of the Amazon, and foster respect and protection of
ancestral and current knowledge and wisdom.
● Promote
management of Amazonian resources.
Go
back to basics:
Amazon
Rainforest:
● Amazon
forest is the world's largest tropical rainforest, located in Northern South America along the Amazon
River and its tributaries.
● These
are large tropical rainforests occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River
and its tributaries in northern South America and covering an area of 6,000,000
square km.
● The
Amazon biome is vast, encompassing eight fast-developing countries—Brazil,
Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Guyana, and Suriname—as well as
French Guiana, a French overseas territory.