‘Nature needs money’: Lula tells rich countries to pay up and protect world’s rainforests
‘Nature needs money’: Lula tells rich countries to pay up and protect world’s rainforests
Brazilian president says developed nations that over centuries have pumped emissions into the atmosphere must ‘pay their bit’
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major rainforest nations demanded hundreds of billions of dollars of climate financing and a greater role in how those resources are spent.
And what guarantees are they able to give that someone like Bolsonaro isn't returning in the near future?
Judging from past achievements, you are not fit to manage hundreds of billions of dollars.
To be fair, if the US can't make the guarantee that some wannabe dictator will slip into power after the next election cycle, who can?
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If we want them to stop developing the rainforest for economic reasons, then we need to give them an alternative. The fact is, the whole world needs the Amazon as a carbon sink. It seems like a worthy trade to me. They're helping all of us, and if they ever stop, the rest of the world can just cut the funding.
The US is just asking to be the most influential country in the world, nothing to fear!
It's not like the rich countries are self-evidently sober and stable in their politics and climate impacts. The richest one just had their own wannabe fascist and has both been responsible for a large part of emissions and rarely met their climate goals.
There are many arguments to be made here but this isn't one. The money can have conditions attached to it. For example, give an amount now and agree to some target being reached within 6 months and so on.