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At COP28, Norway announced it would invest 50 million US dollars in the Amazon Fund to preserve the Brazilian rainforest. This financial injection is also a recognition of Brazil’s ongoing efforts to end deforestation. In the first eleven months of President Ignacio Lula da Silva’s government, deforestation decreased by around 50 percent.When deforestation rates skyrocketed […]
On Sunday, right-wing populist Javier Milei took office as President of Argentina. On the same day, the 72-year-old announced on X that he had signed a decree reducing the number of ministries in the country from 18 to 9, including the Ministry of the Environment.Milei’s climate negotiator, Marcia Levaggi, told the news agency Reuters at […]
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Environment Minister Steffi Lemke have announced at COP28 in Dubai that Germany will contribute another 60 million euros to the UN Adaptation Fund. Each ministry will provide half of the sum. Germany had already paid the same amount into the fund in 2022. This makes the country the largest donor.In […]
More than three billion US dollars have been pledged for the agriculture and food sector since the start of the COP. This figure does not include all the money that could flow into the sector. For example, the public-private partnership Africa and Middle East SAFE Initiative pledged an additional ten billion. These are to be […]
In a letter dated Wednesday, the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Haitham al-Ghais, urges member countries of the organization to block formulations in the COP closing document related to fossil fuels. The letter states, “It seems that the inappropriate and disproportionate pressure against fossil fuels could reach a tipping point […]