Brazil Proposes a New Type of Fund To Protect Tropical Forests
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/05/1441220/brazil-proposes-a-new-type-of-fund-to-protect-tropical-forests
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Private investors would contribute the remaining $100 billion. Brazil has committed $1 billion. Countries would receive around $4 per hectare of standing forest after using satellite imagery to verify forests remain in place. Nations with annual deforestation rates above 0.5% are ineligible for payouts. Indonesia, which has rapidly lost forests to palm-oil cultivation and mining, cannot participate. One-fifth of the payments are designated for forest communities. The World Bank is managing the fund.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/climate/cop30-amazon-brazil-forest-fund.html
Nice forest... (Score:2)
shame if something was to happen to it! This has common sense written all over it - after all the UK for example used to be heavily forested and it seems hardly fair to make other countries freeze development at some arbitrary level/time. You just know this is just going to devolve into greenwashing and extortion though!
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> shame if something was to happen to it! This has common sense written all over it - after all the UK for example used to be heavily forested and it seems hardly fair to make other countries freeze development at some arbitrary level/time. You just know this is just going to devolve into greenwashing and extortion though!
This is a serious plan to pay the state government to literally do nothing, and to value nature and habit, and to enforce this understanding into the future. This means the value of doing nothing is greater than the value of development which is only worthy of a short term valuation.
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This is a serious plan for greenwashing. Brazil is allowing forest to be cut down primarily to benefit foreign investors, which means they could just not be doing that already.
Rules were made to be Unforest (Score:1)
We had a Zoho cheat sheet called Power OTG (Off the Grind) which listed Reaper drones and napalm kits. There was even a repo we resort to for the president's wife, kids, uncle, cousin, and fake people. Zohoooo!
Why does this sound like. (Score:3)
A feel good story to scam and embezzle money from rich doners, Brazil holding the jungle hostage, " pay us monies or will burn the jungle down" in a sweet Mister Rogers sort of way
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What could be more corrupt?
Corrupt entities around the world are reading this post and saying "challenge accepted."
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Brazil seems to be a net contributor to this. They already pay people to not deplete the rainforest domestically. The fact that it has enjoyed some success is why they are proposing making it an international effort.
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Just tell everybody do not harm the jungle, if someone is caught they are arrested and face life in a hard labor prison camp under armed guard where they spend everyday planting native trees in the jungle until they die of old age
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Scamming and embezzling from rich donors makes it feel even better.