--- title: South America To Pledge to End Amazon Deforestation by 2030 description: The pledge, to be signed in August, would amount to the most ambitious government effort yet to protect the world’s largest rainforest. canonical: https://time.com/6296408/south-america-end-deforestation-2030/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-07-20T18:19:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T16:11:09.082Z article:section: Climate og:title: South America Will Pledge to End Amazon Deforestation by 2030 og:description: The pledge would amount to the most ambitious government effort yet to protect the world’s largest rainforest. og:url: https://time.com/6296408/south-america-end-deforestation-2030/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52d0174427a1a131/698a3ed5cabb1df57ee51958/amazon-deforestation-south-america-2030-pledge.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: BRAZIL-ENVIRONMENT-FIRE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: South America Will Pledge to End Amazon Deforestation by 2030 twitter:description: The pledge would amount to the most ambitious government effort yet to protect the world’s largest rainforest. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52d0174427a1a131/698a3ed5cabb1df57ee51958/amazon-deforestation-south-america-2030-pledge.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # South America Will Pledge to End Amazon Deforestation by 2030 > Sponsored content. 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Florian Plaucheur—AFP/Getty Images by [Marcelo Rochabrun / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Marcelo Rochabrun / Bloomberg Contributor Jul 20, 2023 6:19 PM UTC Brazilian [President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva](https://time.com/6226932/lula-win-amazon-climate-change-brazil/)’s ambitious pledge to end illegal deforestation of the Amazon [rainforest](https://time.com/6242262/brazil-drought-farming-rain-forests/) by 2030 is going regional. The eight South American nations that make up the [Amazon rainforest](https://time.com/6233998/brazil-indonesia-rainforests-climate-cop27/) have agreed to adopt the pledge in August, Peruvian Environment Minister Albina Ruiz said in a news conference on Thursday. “There is consensus when it comes to zero deforestation,” Ruiz said in a press conference in Lima. Peru has the second-largest section of the Amazon after Brazil. The pledge would amount to the most ambitious government effort yet to [protect the world’s largest rainforest](https://time.com/6158948/conserving-forests-stabilize-our-climate/), whose preservation scientists see as key to helping avert climate change. It also faces huge obstacles as the nations sharing the Amazon have economic interests that are sometimes at odds with its preservation. Gold mining is a key concern, as are the oil and timber industries. Lula is already set to host the presidents of the eight nations — Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela — in August to sign an Amazon declaration. 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