Agreement on financing and quick-start measures to protect rainforest – An emergency package is created!
Last week in Oslo, Heads of State and Government, ministers and other representatives from some fifty countries concluded an agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation. Around $4.5 billion has been pledged for the period 2010-2012 to support measures to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales gave a keynote speech following an introduction by the co-chairs of the meeting, Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg and President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Both co-chairs were kind enough to recognise that the Prince’s work had made a significant contribution to the successful outcome of the REDD+ finance programme. Particular reference was made by them and other Heads of State to the meeting His Royal Highness hosted at St James Palace in April 2009 and the work of the PRP in bringing the forest agenda to the attention of world leaders.
The global forest partnership that was established in Oslo marks the start of closer global cooperation on reducing deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.
To read more on this article please visit: http://www.rainforestsos.org/pages/emergency-package/
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