Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO)
The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) is an international organization aimed at the promotion of sustainable development of the Amazon Basin.
Its member states are: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
The Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT) was signed on 3 July 1978 and amended in 1998.
ACTO was created in 1995 to strengthen the implementation of the Treaty.
The Permanent Secretariat was later established in Brasilia in 2002.
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The ACTO group members agreed to launch an alliance to fight deforestation in the Amazon.
The ACTO Summit-2023 in Brazil vowed to stop the biggest rainforest from reaching ‘a point of no return’.
The closely watched summit of the ACTO adopted what host country Brazil called a “new and ambitious shared agenda” to save the rainforest, a crucial buffer against climate change that experts warn is being pushed to the brink of collapse.
Laying out a nearly 10,000-word roadmap to promote sustainable development, end deforestation and fight the organised crime that fuels it.
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