Lula seeks roadmap to save Amazon at 'urgent' summit with South American leaders

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opens an Amazon rainforest summit in Belem, in northern Brazil, in a "context of severe worsening of the climate crisis" as South American leaders are set to seek a roadmap to save the Amazon.

It is the first summit in 14 years for the eight-nation Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, set up in 1995 by the countries that share the Amazon basin: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.