Countries that border the Amazon rainforest need to have a bigger voice in the international climate debate and greater representation on global environmental forums, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
Organizations such as the Global Environment Facility, for instance, make Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador share a single seat on its council while developed economies like the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden each have their own seats, he said.
“It is inexplicable that international mechanisms of financing reproduce a logic of exclusion,” Lula said Saturday at an environmental conference in Leticia, Colombia, where he also met with the nation’s president, Gustavo Petro.
