Unspent forest climate aid could reach NOK 5 billion by year’s end

News September 17, 2013

Huge Norwegian aid investments aim to slow tropical forest destruction. Six years after Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced his plan to protect tropical forests as a way of mitigating climate change, NOK 8.4 billion in Norwegian aid have been disbursed, but NOK 4 billion remain unspent.

Logging in East Kalimantan.
Photo: Jan van der Ploeg / CIFOR

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