Source: France24
Rich countries will bring to about 4.0 billion US dollars the amount committed to fighting deforestation by 2012, 500 million more than committed to at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Norway said Thursday."We have reached around four billion dollars," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway, which is hosting an international deforestation conference, told a press conference.
The amount includes the 3.5 billion dollars committed to by the United States, Norway, Japan, Britain, France and Australia at the UN climate summit in December.