Norway Promises $1 Billion to Save Amazon Rain Forest.By Marco Sibaja, AP, September 16, 2008. "Norway will give Brazil US$1 billion by 2015 to preserve the Amazon rain forest, as long as Latin America's largest nation keeps trying to stop deforestation, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday. The promised donation is the first [from] a new Amazon preservation fund Brazilian officials hope will raise $21 billion to protect nature reserves, to persuade loggers and farmers to stop destroying trees and to finance scientific and technological projects. 'Efforts against deforestation may give us the largest, quickest and cheapest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,' Stoltenberg told reporters."
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