Operational rifts and budget constraints choked ambitious funding from rich nations for TFFF at Belém’s summit.

Since 2023, Brazil has been pushing a new idea to finance the conservation of global tropical forests: Instead of directly donating money to Indigenous and conservation groups, nations and investors ...

But despite conservation wins like this, recent research reveals a sobering reality: Brazil’s Atlantic Forest continues to lose thousands of hectares of mature forest each year, even though it’s ...

The TFFF fund launched at COP30 aims to pay communities to protect the rainforest, but will it be enough? On French Guiana's ...

One day last November, as the World Cup got underway and the whole of football turned its gaze on Qatar, a message pinged on Gary Brazil’s mobile phone. Matty Cash was preparing for a tournament that ...

BRASILIA – Several states in Brazil are trying to rid themselves of rainforest protections, bowing to pressure from cattle ranchers and soybean growers to cut down trees and expand agriculture. Their ...

First came the floods, then the fire. As he officially opened COP30, Brazil’s president, Lula Inacio da Silva said that by ...

Tropical countries from Cameroon to Colombia could earn tens of millions of dollars a year under a novel approach to protecting the world's rainforests being launched at the COP30 summit in Brazil.

Germany’s support for Brazil’s new rainforest protection fund adds momentum to a global effort that will reward forest conservation, penalize deforestation and direct resources to Indigenous and ...

Brazil’s most important environmental legislation is on the chopping block again, with politicians in the country’s lower chamber proposing to alter it by claiming it impedes economic growth. Brazil’s ...

With his neck tattoos and a goal celebration based on an anime character, Igor Jesus is a hard man to miss. But unless you followed Middle Eastern football closely, you may not have heard of the ...

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