BELEM, Brazil, Nov 6 (Reuters) – European nations are throwing their weight behind a $2.5 billion plan to save the Congo rainforest, a document seen by Reuters showed, 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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The French-led initiative — backed by Germany, Norway, Belgium and Britain — is called