NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The opening day of the United Nations Climate Summit began with some promising news of international cooperation, with dozens of countries, corporations and indigenous groups, including the United States, pledged to slow the rate of deforestation.
The New York Declaration of Forests, which called cut yearly deforestation losses in half by 2020 and end net loses by 2030. But the agreement failed to include the support of Brazil, the massive South American nation that accounts for more than half of the world's rainforest acreage.