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Brazil seeks more donor funding for Amazon Fund to fight deforestation

Brazil welcomes the unfreezing of more than NOK 6 billion in “old” Norwegian aid sitting in the Amazon Fund but wants Norway and other donors to change the rules for disbursement so that new money can be paid in to combat the massive increase in deforestation over the last four years.  Germany announced EUR 35 million for the fund after the change of government in Brasilia.

News January 16, 2023

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Indigenous groups in Guyana raise alarm over historic issuance of carbon credits by Norwegian-funded certifier

The government of Guyana has been issued 33 million tonnes worth of forest carbon credits by ART, a certifier...

News December 23, 2022

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The ‘hollow’ promise of loss and damage

In the absence of concrete financial commitments, the loss and damage fund agreed at the COP27 climate...

News November 30, 2022

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Outcry from indigenous groups prompts change of rules in LEAF forest carbon scheme

Indigenous organisations in the Brazilian state of Acre were kept in the dark for almost a year about...

News November 18, 2022

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Growing frustration among indigenous leaders with forest carbon scheme LEAF

Indigenous leaders criticise the billion-dollar forest carbon credit scheme LEAF, backed by Norway, the...

News November 03, 2022

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Huge dilemmas for forest deal in Brazil as Norway bets on Lula’s win

The Norwegian Climate Ministry is hoping that a presidential win by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil...

News October 20, 2022

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Support to civil society and independent scientific research appear of little importance to Norway’s new climate and environment deal with Indonesia

Espen Barth Eide, Norway’s Minister for Climate and Environment, has just signed a new climate and environment...

Opinion October 07, 2022

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Climate Ministry defends Indonesia forest pact, experts double down on critique of secrecy clauses

Secrecy clauses in an agreement on reducing deforestation, signed recently by Norway and Indonesia, do...

News October 04, 2022

Danes break deadlock in climate talks, offering funds for loss and damage

Denmark is the first UN member to pledge funding to compensate poor countries for “loss and damage” due...

News September 21, 2022

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Norwegian academics say secrecy clauses in new forest pact with Indonesia are ‘totally unacceptable’

Norway’s new forest agreement with Indonesia amounts to “political censorship” and contradicts basic...

News September 21, 2022

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