Crocodile tears will not help to put out the Amazon’s fires
24 Aug 2019
by Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition Being proven correct does not always feel good. When the Green Climate Fund, the world’s largest climate fund, proposed last January to give a grant of no less than 96,5 million dollars to Brazil for its efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation in 2014 and 2015, NGOs warned immediately that this money could literally go up in smoke, as the same forests that were conserved in 2014 and 2015 were threatened with destruction at …
