Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva urged eight Amazon countries on Tuesday to come together to avoid the rainforest reaching a tipping point, which could happen if a fifth of the trees are lost. Silva said an effort the size of the post-World War Two Marshall Plan was needed to save the world’s largest tropical forest and untold wealth of biodiversity from reaching the point of no return, when experts say it will dry out and turn into savanna.
Brazilian ministers, diplomats, Indigenous leaders, climate experts and environmentalists began a three-day conference to prepare proposals…
