West 'should pay to save forest'
Updated on 27 November 2009
Brazil's president has insisted that the rich West should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, saying it has caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest rainforest.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the comments just before an Amazon summit in which delegates signed a declaration calling for financial help from the industrial world to halt the deforestation that causes global warming.
"We want to preserve, but they (the West) will have to pay the price for this preservation because we never destroyed our forest like they mowed theirs down a century ago," said Mr Lula.
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