President Claudia Sheinbaum presented to the main world leaders gathered at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, an ambitious proposal to allocate 1% of global military spending to an international fund to promote “the largest reforestation program in history.” ”.
“The proposal is to establish a fund to allocate 1% of our countries’ military spending to carry out the largest reforestation program in history,” Sheinbaum mentioned in his participation during the first work session ‘Fight against Hunger and Poverty’.
The president proposed sowing peace and life, instead of wars, which is why she proposed allocating $24 billion a year to support six million tree planters in charge of 15 million hectares.
Sheinbaum mentioned that this effort represents 12 times the resources that Mexico already allocates in this initiative, as well as that the scale of this project amounts to four times the territory of Denmark, all of Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador together, or 30% of Sweden. .
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“With this we would help mitigate global warming and restore the social fabric, helping communities escape poverty. The proposal is to stop sowing wars, let’s sow peace and sow life,” he highlighted.
Sheinbaum based his proposal on the experience of the Sembrando Vida program, implemented since 2018 and created by his predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
Sheinbaum explained that this scheme, which allocates 1.7 billion dollars annually, has allowed the reforestation of one million hectares, with more than 1.1 billion trees planted, in addition to generating jobs for 479,000 families in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
In addition, he noted that this program captures 30 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) annually.
Sheinbaum questions spending on weapons
Sheinbaum also took advantage of his intervention to reflect on the imbalance between resources allocated to war and those allocated to global well-being.
“What is happening in our world that in just two years, spending on weapons grew almost triple that of the world economy? How did the destruction economy reach a spending of more than 2.4 trillion dollars? “How is it that 700 million people in the world still live below the poverty line?” he questioned.
Sheinbaum described it as “absurd” that there is more spending on weapons than to address poverty or climate change, which is why he insisted that his proposal could reduce global problems such as migration and hunger.
“I refuse to think that we are capable of creating artificial intelligence and incapable of giving a hand to those who were left behind,” he added.
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In his speech, Sheinbaum also highlighted Mexico’s progress under a new orientation in the federal administration, highlighting milestones such as the reduction of poverty by more than nine million people, the increase of the minimum wage to more than double, and the strengthening of rights such as education and public health.
All this under the motto “for the good of all, the poor first” that AMLO established.
“Trains, roads, ports and airports are built. There is democracy, freedoms (…) inequalities are reduced. There is democracy, freedoms, plurality and the right to dissent,” Sheinbaum said.
In addition, Sheinbaum marked a personal and collective milestone by remembering his recent arrival to the presidency of Mexico, on October 1.
“I had the great honor of becoming the first female president of my country and I did not arrive alone, the peasants, the migrants, the workers, the professionals, our grandmothers, our daughters and our granddaughters arrived, all the Mexican women arrived,” she concluded. .
This is the first trip abroad for Claudia Sheinbaum as president of Mexico, who has shown a more proactive approach to foreign policy, in contrast to her predecessor AMLO, who for six years almost never left the country.
With information from EFE
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