Protecting Our Planet’s Heart: Parliamentarians’ Roadmap To A Fossil-Free Amazon

The presidents of Amazonian countries face a historic choice: to declare the Amazon as a fossil fuel expansion–free zone and achieve a double climate victory — safeguarding a biome essential for global stability while halting one of the main sources of CO₂ emissions.

Our year-long Inquiry into oil and gas exploitation in the Amazon shows that the extractive model has failed. It has devastated ecosystems, eroded Indigenous cultures, and pushed the forest closer to a tipping point beyond which it will no longer regulate the planet’s climate. The damage already caused is profound, but there is still time to act decisively.

Indigenous Peoples, who have kept the forest standing for centuries, call the Amazon the “heart of the world.” Their knowledge and traditions have protected this vital organ of the Earth, and today they ask the global community to honor that responsibility. Listening to them means ending destructive extractive practices and advancing just, sustainable alternatives.

This report presents both the evidence of harm and the pathways forward. We call on governments and the international community to design and implement laws and policies that phase out fossil fuel expansion, strengthen Indigenous governance, and invest in a just and equitable energy transition. The Amazon belongs to the planet — protecting it is our shared duty and the most urgent step we can take to secure a livable future for everyone.