![Leaders from the Amazon countries pose for a family photo at the summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), in Belém, Brazil on August 8, 2023.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/T4QKQ3QU3T2KZ7ZVQCYFWKRXZA.jpg?auth=5d7e7bc70f14e66b031c195625e50badf79c918b6dcaf648ea3b223cbea00a98&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Brazil’s Amazon Summit ends with a plan to protect the world’s rainforests, but no measurable goals
Leaders and ministers from eight Amazon nations signed a declaration Tuesday that laid out plans to drive economic development in their countries while preventing the Amazon’s ongoing demise ‘from reaching a point of no return’