Amazon Summit ends with plan to protect rainforests but no measurable goals

Leaders pose for a group photo during the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Amazon Summit has closed with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests but without concrete commitments to end deforestation.

Leaders and ministers from eight Amazon nations signed a declaration in Belem, Brazil, 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”.