Exclusive: European countries back $2.5 billion initiative to protect Congo rainforest

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BELEM, Brazil, Nov 6 (Reuters) – European nations have backed a $2.5 billion plan to save the Congo rainforest, France’s presidency told a United Nations climate summit, launching a conservation scheme that may steal some thunder from the flagship initiative of COP30 host Brazil.
Mobilizing more money to protect and restore the world’s last remaining rainforests is a central goal of the U.N. climate talks, deliberately held in the Brazilian Amazon this year to focus on the need to fight emissions from rampant deforestation.
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