Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, will offer to reduce the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest by 80% at this year's climate talks in Copenhagen.
Mr Lula said he would make the pledge at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is due to take place this December in the Danish capital.
He told listeners of his Coffee with the President weekly radio programme that he foresees making this reduction by 2020 amounting to 4.8 billion fewer tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
However, Mr Lula added that with respect to global warming, the responsibility of rich countries is much greater than that of emerging ones.
"We have to draw a line between rich countries, which have a had an industrial policy in place for more than 150 years, and the poor ones which only now are beginning to develop," he said.
The Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world and is the source of one-fifth of all free-flowing fresh water on earth.
According to the WWF, if deforestation continues at its present rate 55 per cent of the Amazon will have disappeared by 2030.
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