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My thanks to WWF International, the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution, the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty and the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty for organizing this meeting of the High Ambition Coalition.
There will be no ceremony as Norway on May 11 takes over as chair of the Arctic Council from Russia. This week, Anniken Huitfeldt presented the priorities for the two years period 2023-2025. Several months have already passed since Sergey Lavrov sent invitations to his colleagues from the seven o
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Norway, the major donor to the Amazon Fund, said the initiative for backing forest protection had been re-activated now that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was back in office and vowing to halt deforestation. "Brazil's new President has signaled a clear ambition to stop deforestation by 2030," Norwegian&#x...
Among his first decisions after taking office for a new presidential term on Sunday, Lula signed a decree reinstating the governing board of the Amazon Fund, with broad representation from civil society and other stakeholders. He also signed decrees re-establishing Brazil's strategies to reduce Amazon deforestation, the rate of which surged to a 15-year high under Bolsonaro.