{"id":302782,"date":"2025-11-20T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302782\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:45:07","slug":"germany-pledges-e1-billion-to-brazils-rainforest-fund-dw-11-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302782\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany pledges \u20ac1 billion to Brazil’s rainforest fund \u2013 DW \u2013 11\/20\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany has committed to contributing \u20ac1 billion ($1.15 billion) over the next decade to Brazil\u2019s new global rainforest fund.<\/a><\/p>\n

Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva announced on Wednesday at the UN Climate Change Conference<\/a> in Belem.<\/p>\n

The substantial support from Berlin will go to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva\u2019s<\/a> Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF).<\/p>\n

It is a mechanism designed to reward countries for preserving their rainforests and to penalize those that increase deforestation, based on satellite monitoring.<\/p>\n

“This is about protecting the tropical rainforests, the lungs of our planet,”\u00a0German<\/a> Environment Minister Carsten Schneider and Development Minister Reem Alabali Radovan said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brazil’s $125 billion plan to save the world’s rainforests<\/p>\n

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What does Brazil hope to achieve with the TFFF?<\/p>\n

The South American country<\/a> estimates the fund could eventually reach $125 billion, distributing around $4 billion annually after an initial ramp-up phase, nearly tripling the current international forest financing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rainforests have been described as the planet\u2019s “green lungs”\u00a0as they absorb substantial\u00a0amounts of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n

They also help cool the atmosphere and host vast biodiversity, but face accelerating pressure from agriculture, pasture expansion and mining.<\/p>\n

Norway has already pledged $3 billion over 10 years, while Brazil and Indonesia plan to add $1 billion each.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Founding members of the initiative include Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and Malaysia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The TFFF will be overseen by an 18-member board split evenly between rainforest nations and donor countries, with the World Bank initially serving as trustee.<\/p>\n

Up to 70 developing countries could benefit from the fund, with recipients free to decide how to use the money if at least 20% goes to Indigenous peoples and traditional communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At its official launch in early November, 53 countries \u2014 including 19 potential investor states \u2014 had already expressed support.<\/p>\n

Brazil hopes wealthy countries will commit an initial $25 billion, with a further $100 billion expected from private-sector sources. Under the rules of the fund, investments linked to fossil fuels are excluded.<\/p>\n

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