Emmanuel Macron, in the overview of the G7 summit: "The Amazon, we are all"

The fires that ravage the Amazon for several days were included on the agenda of the G7 summit in France. "The Amazon, that's all … We must invest to fight the ongoing fires, help Brazil and all affected countries and invest in reforestation … France must do everything possible but we can not do everything alone. the planet is at a turning point"said French President Emmanuel Macron in a speech delivered before the summit of the major powers.

"We must respond to the call of the forests. The Amazon is our common good, it concerns us all (…) and so we will act, "insisted the head of state, who called the rainforest" treasure of biodiversity ".

Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently criticized their "inaction" to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and decided to address this issue at the summit, which they called " international crisis ".

What the Brazilian President denounced a "colonialist mentality" of France for discussing "Amazonian issues" without the participation of the countries of the region ".

"We will try to mobilize everyone to raise funds to reforest as quickly as possible," Macron said Friday in an interview with the website. Konbini.

The French president, who has placed the climate agenda "at the center of this G7", wants to get the commitment of leaders – including Trump, skeptical about climate change – in anticipation of the UN summit on climate change. Environment of september

"We are particularly shocked by the horrific fires in the Amazon, and at the top we will have to see how we can help and the goal should be to get the message out that everything must be done to stop the jungle from burning." said Merkel. arrival in Biarritz, the French Atlantic coast town hosting the G7 summit.

Merkel added that French President Emmanuel Macron was right to put the issue on the agenda.

"Our house is on fire and we can not remain silent," said the Chancellor, a paraphrase of Macron's tweet that provoked Bolsonaro's anger. "Our house is burning, literally," Macron said.

At the summit, Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom will also discuss the crisis with Iran and the trade war US-China, the reduction of global inequalities and, in particular, the gap between men and women.