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Greenpeace calls for deforestation fund

Agence France-Presse: Greenpeace urged industrialised nations Tuesday to set up an international fund to fight deforestation but warned it would require at least 30 billion dollars a year to work. The plan would see rich nations give poorer ones money to preserve their natural forests instead of felling trees to create farmland, Greenpeace's Roman Czebiniac told an 11-day UN conference on biodiversity in Bonn. He said the fund would need 20 to 27 billion euros (31 to 47 billion dollars) a year to ... Read »
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