Norway’s rainforest scheme still focused on carbon emissions, outspending UK and Germany

Over 15 years, Norway has committed more than half of its NOK 40 billion rainforest programme for result-based payments aimed at rewarding tropical forest governments for reducing their carbon emissions from deforestation. Germany and the United Kingdom have spent much less on this, a Development Today review shows. Economist Arild Angelsen links this intense focus on carbon to the drive to continue drilling for oil and gas: “We cut emissions where it is cheapest, and that is not in Norway.”