Thursday 17 November 2022 08:56 AM Amazon rainforest on brink of destruction near point of not absorbing ... trends now
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The Amazon rainforest is now 'alarmingly close' to dying by 2030 due to climate change and forest loss, a report warns.
The world's largest rainforest is close to a 'tipping point' that could mean it changes forever, no longer benefiting humanity by soaking up greenhouse gases, the WWF report says.
It came as Brazil's president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, attended the UN climate summit COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Speaking to a cheering crowd, he pledged to 'undertake a big fight against deforestation'.
The former president beat the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in last month's elections and will assume power on January 1.
Deforestation in the Amazon reached a record high this year. Pictured: A Brazilian flag seen in a deforested and burnt area on the edge of the BR-230 Trans-Amazonian highway on September 22 this year
