UK Commits Additional €35 Million to Brazil’s Amazon Fund

The National Forest in the Carajas mountain range near Parauapebas, Para state, Brazil.

Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg
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The UK committed an additional €35 million ($38.1 million) to Brazil’s Amazon Fund, an international conservation initiative aimed at ending deforestation in the world’s largest rainforest by 2030.

The UK will also transfer €80 million to Brazil’s development bank, BNDES, fulfilling a commitment made in May by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was visiting London, according to a statement Saturday at the COP28 conference in Dubai.