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UK announces £150m package to save tropical rainforests The funding is expected to help protect rainforests equivalent to an area the size of Wales Image: Shutterstock Rainforest regions like the Amazon and Indonesian basins and communities vulnerable to climate change are set to benefit from a new £150 million government investment. The funding is predicted to help protect 2.1 million hectares of rainforests, an area the size of Wales, from deforestation. Funds are also forecast to remove 2...

Share A new multi-million pound fund launched today will help protect rainforests equivalent to an area the size of Wales, cut millions of tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of over 600,000 people in tropical forest communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Through the newly launched Mobilising Finance for Forests Programme, the government will invest £150 million for businesses and investors who support and deliver sustainable land-use projects and protect rainforest re...

Date Time £150 million government investment to save world’s rainforests New government funding to protect tropical rainforests, regions and communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America funding will help protect 2.1 million hectares of rainforests, an area the size of Wales, from deforestation programme will have the potential to create thousands of green jobs throughout rainforest regions and generate almost £1 billion of green private sector investment to tackle climate change around...

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