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05/28/2008: "Germany Pledges Funds for Protection of Tropical Forests"

Stopping global warming means putting a halt to deforestation. At the UN biodiversity conference in Bonn on Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged billions of euros to support that effort.

[ Apparantly simply buying the Amazon costs $50 billion - according to the Swedish tycoon who has already bought some - so this looks like paying the owners of the forest not to cut it down. If that's the case there is some astonishing corruption going on. ]



http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,555977,00.html