Interview: Tasso Azevedo

Brazil’s Amazon Fund: the origin story

News May 03, 2022 / By: Ann Danaiya Usher

Nervous but hopeful, the visionary Brazilian forester Tasso Azevedo travelled to the Bali climate summit in 2007 with a plan to save the Amazon that everyone said would never fly. To his surprise, Norway jumped on the idea and pledged a billion dollars. This is the origin story of the Amazon Fund as told by its inventor.

Tasso Azevedo.jpg — *Tasso Azevedo Photo: Development Today*

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Interview: Tasso Azevedo

Brazil’s Amazon Fund: the origin story

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