Giant Norway pension fund weighs Brazil divestment over Amazon deforestation

Mongabay
Sep 3, 2019, 9:39 am165 pts
Illegal Amazon logging on Pirititi Indigenous lands in Roraima state, Brazil, May 2018. Image by Felipe Werneck / IBAMA. In mid-August, the governments of Norway and Germany suspended payments to the Amazon Fund, which finances conservation efforts in the Amazon Rainforest aimed at limiting deforestation. Not…

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