Brazil has proposed a new $250 billion mechanism for conserving the world’s tropical rainforests. The “Tropical Forests Forever” fund, sourced from governments and the private sector, would disburse ...
Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...
As host of 2025’s COP30 climate summit, Brazil is working on two complementary finance mechanisms, hoping to reward tropical forest conservation worldwide. Both rely on the concept of investing money ...
The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled. By Somini Sengupta and Claire Brown To ...
At the latest United Nations (UN) session in New York, Brazil's President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva pledged USD 1 billion to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF). With this announcement, ...