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Direct Relief Donates $530,000 to Bring Oxygen to Covid-Stricken City in the Brazilian Amazon  Direct Relief made the grant to the Foundation for Amazon Sustainability to purchase an estimated 350 oxygen concentrators. The donation was facilitated by the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force and Health Bridges International. Witoto indigenous tribe homes in the Parque das Tribos neighborhood of Manaus, Brazil. Severe oxygen shortages at hospitals in Brazils Amazon prompted local au...

After more than a decade of working toward qualifying for payments under the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions caused by Deforestation and Forest Degradation) scheme, Indonesia received its first results-based financial rewards last year. REDD+, a policy initiative recognized under the U.N. Paris Agreement in 2015, was created as a way to provide incentives to conserve tropical forests and curb planet-warming greenhouse gases that are emitted when they are cut down. Initially, it was conceived as a mar...