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https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/tropical-forest-fund-cop30-brazil-9.6971548
New fund will invest in emerging markets and use profits to reward conservation efforts
By Inayat Singh, Jill English, Susan Ormiston · CBC News
A bold new plan to protect tropical forests, which aims to raise $125 billion US and directly pay developing countries to halt deforestation, is taking shape at the COP30 UN climate conference in Brazil this week.
Brazil is leading the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, which will essentially reward countries that can limit deforestation in their territory, while also generating financing for clean energy in developing countries. The facility is a kind of investment fund, with capital put up by donor countries and the private sector.
“We really need to go from reducing deforestation to permanently protecting the tropical rainforests,” said Andreas Bjelland Eriksen, Norway’s environment minister, in an interview with CBC News at COP30 in Belem, Brazil.
“The idea behind the TFFF is to create a permanent revenue stream, making it more profitable to allow forests to stand rather than to cut them down.”
Norway has pledged $3 billion US, so far the biggest contribution announced to the forest facility. Brazil has pledged $1 billion, Indonesia another $1 billion, and France about $500 million.
Brazilian officials, who have been working on the proposal for over a year, are hoping to raise an initial $10 billion US in the first year of the fund proposal. With over half of that pledged already, they are optimistic about reaching their goal.
“The fundamental idea behind the TFFF is that it’s also an investment. And that is what is smart about the TFFF,” Eriksen said, referring to the fund’s model that would drive investment into some of the same developing countries that have the forests it wants to protect.
