Belém, Brazil – Amidst the verdant expanse of the Amazon basin, the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) has become the stage for one of the most ambitious forest-finance experiments in history. Spearheaded by…
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This November the world’s long-running climate summit returns to the Amazon. COP30 — the 30th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — is being held in Belém, Brazil,…