Alarmed by the devastating spread of forest fires in the Amazon, MEPs meeting in Strasbourg on Tuesday 17 September urged the European institutions to take urgent action and broaden the scope of their action.
While all agreed on the need to act quickly, in a multilateral framework, to preserve this invaluable reserve of biodiversity and this essential lung in the fight against climate change, no resolution was adopted. The right, the social democrats and liberals did not want to rush and...