Home to an estimated 10 percent of Earth's biodiversity, 50 million people and hundreds of billions of trees, the vast Amazon is a vital carbon sink, reducing global warming. / Photo: AP
Brazilian leaders face pressure to set out bold solutions to save the damaged Amazon as they open a summit on Tuesday on the world's biggest rainforest. Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said the summit would produce a joint declaration setting out"instructions" for the eight countries to implement"new targets and new tasks" to protect the rainforest from deforestation.In Brazil, the world's top exporter of beef and soy and home to 60 percent of the Amazon, the destruction has already wiped out around one-fifth of the rainforest.
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