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Norway finally releases climate forest payment earned by Guyana a decade ago

A solar power project in Guyana will be financed with Norwegian climate forest money, the Norwegian Climate Ministry announced this week, after years of delay. Guyana “earned” the NOK 600 million in project...

News June 24, 2022

Norway and UK fund ‘price guarantee’ to jump-start market for forest carbon credits

Norway and the United Kingdom plan to use USD 450 million in aid funds to jump-start the LEAF forest...

News June 20, 2022

Norway rolls back most of the proposed cuts in UN support

After three weeks of parliamentary negotiations, Norway’s Labour-Centre government has agreed in a deal...

News June 14, 2022

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Swedish, Norwegian aid cuts not written in stone, decisive weeks ahead

Huge amounts have been carved out of the Swedish and Norwegian aid budgets to fund the reception of Ukrainian...

News May 30, 2022

Head of CEPI calls for more non-aid funds to finance pandemic vaccine research

The Oslo-based vaccine agency CEPI depends on aid for 40 per cent of its financing. CEPI’s CEO Richard...

News May 20, 2022

Nordic aid budget round-up: Historic cuts in Sweden, Norwegian aid could sink to lowest level since 2008

Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are tapping USD 1.6 billion from their aid budgets to fund domestic costs...

News May 13, 2022

Brazil’s Amazon Fund: the origin story

Nervous but hopeful, the visionary Brazilian forester Tasso Azevedo travelled to the Bali climate summit...

News May 03, 2022

IMF and global health leaders call for a strategic shift in COVID-19 response

The international covid response mechanism, the ACT-Accelerator, has focused mainly on vaccines to the...

News April 29, 2022

Aid level plunged to ten-year low in 2021 as Norway saw highest growth on record

The Norwegian petroleum-driven economy grew at the fastest rate on record last year, while aid dropped...

News April 24, 2022

Calls for an independent commission to investigate Norway’s gigantic rainforest initiative

The NOK 60 billion rainforest initiative, the largest aid programme in Norwegian history, has run into...

News April 08, 2022

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