G7 leaders agree to $20 million fund for fighting Amazon fires

Countries at the G7 summit have just reached an agreement to help fight the devastating fires in the Amazon rainforest.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on Monday said that the Group of Seven leaders have agreed to a $20 million fund for helping Amazon countries fight the wildfires there, as well as to start a global initiative for protecting the rainforest, The Associated Press reports.

Macron had previously teased that a deal to provide "technical and financial help" to Brazil was forthcoming, having called the fires an "international crisis." Environmentalists and researchers have said cattle ranchers and loggers are behind most of the fires, thousands of which have broken out this month.

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Macron acknowledged on Monday morning that President Trump did not attend the G7 climate meeting that took place prior to this announcement, AP reports, but he said that the United States supports the agreement. Macron also said per CNN that Trump's team was in attendance.