Rainforest aid

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No result-based climate payments by Norway to tropical forest countries in 2020

For the first time in 12 years, the multi-billion-dollar Norwegian rainforest initiative made no payments for reduced emissions from deforestation in any of the tropical countries where it has bilateral...

News March 05, 2021

Norway to pay Indonesia NOK 530m for reduced forest carbon emissions

Norway has announced its first result-based payment to Indonesia for reducing deforestation, part of...

News July 10, 2020

Boosts carbon price to 10 dollars per tonne in Colombia climate forest deal

Norway continues to push ahead with REDD+, offering to pay Colombia NOK 2 billion for reduced deforestation...

News December 20, 2019

Norway rewards Guyana, despite increased deforestation driven by gold mining

The Norwegian Climate Ministry has based its final forest payment to Guyana on a Rube Goldberg-type formula...

News October 25, 2019

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Norwegian aid-financed study aims to re-define global narrative on food and land use

An initiative financed by the Norwegian government – the Food and Land Use Coalition – aims to bring...

News September 26, 2019

NOK 3 billion in unspent climate forest aid stranded at Brazilian bank

Since Brazil closed the steering committee of the Amazon Fund, which was set up to channel Norwegian...

News August 27, 2019

Brazil forest deal in crisis. Elvestuen says negotiations are still on-going

Following international reports that Norway has frozen its forest aid to Brazil, triggered by Environment...

News August 17, 2019

Norway defends billion-dollar Amazon Fund as Brazilian minister threatens to exit

In response to reports that Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles is considering closing down...

News July 04, 2019

Breakthrough in Norway-Guyana forest deal after eight-year delay

Norwegian aid funds amounting to NOK 600 million, which have been languishing at the Inter-American Development...

News July 03, 2019

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Norway rewards Indonesia by leaving out peat burning from carbon accounting

By excluding massive CO2 emissions from peat burning in Indonesia, Norway recently presented a positive...

News March 19, 2019

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