World leaders attended a working session on the environment before the G7 comes to a close in Biarritz.
Emmanuel Macron presented leaders and guests with a watch made out of polluting plastic retrieved from the ocean.
The mass fires in the Amazon rainforest were expected to be high on the agenda – with PM Boris Johnson pledging £10million to help protect them.
Macron proposed to raise funds for reforestation, and develop ways to stop industrial deforestation, with the help of NGOs and indigenous communities.
A record number of fires are ravaging the rainforest, many of them in Brazil, drawing international concern because of the Amazon’s importance to the global environment.
Macron shunted the blazes to the top of the summit agenda after declaring them a global emergency. Last week he accused Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s government of not doing enough to protect the area and of lying about its environmental commitments.
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