Rund 3 Milliarden Dollar. So viel hat Norwegen als Beitrag für den #TFFF angekündigt, den Lula auf der #COP30 gelauncht hat. Frankreich will 500 Millionen Euro in den Topf werfen. Kolumbien, die Niederlande und Portugal sind mit kleineren Summen dabei. Wird Merz heute für DE Geld in den Topf werfen?

Eines der spannendsten Projekte der #COP30 steht schon diese Woche beim #LeadersSummit auf der Agenda: Ein Fonds, um den Regenwald zu schützen. @felixfinkbeiner.bsky.social von @plantfortheplanet.bsky.social fordert: Merz sollte ein Investment ankündigen www.deutschlandfunk.de/tfff-intervi...

TFFF - Interview Felix Finkbeiner

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just cut the UK aid budget from 0.5% of GNI to 0.3% in 2027 to fund increases in defence spending. He says he’s making tough choices, but cutting funding for the world’s poorest people is the easiest—and cruellest—choice he could make (1/4)

Following along at the resumed #COP16 meetings today in #Rome on biodiversity. These are expected to be a streamlined version of the official meetings in October. The pressure is on delegates to conclude the unfinished business of Colombia. Today’s focus: resource mobilization @devex.com

Our restoration partner projects around the world are battling forest fires every day. To help them, we introduced the FireAlert app two years ago.

About 25 years ago, we unknowingly passed one of the biggest ecological milestones: agricultural productivity outpaced population growth. Since then, we use a little less farm land every year. In Europe alone, half the size of Germany has been abandoned.

A tiny ambulance. Fighting forest fires with an app and machetes. Millions of bars of chocolate and planted trees. 2024 was an exciting year at Plant-for-the-Planet! May 2025 be even better.

Are things getting a little too harmonious over the holidays? May I suggest reigniting one of the ecology-classics? Here’s a brief summary so you can enter well-armed

Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature

What is the best way to save nature – to cordon off areas for parks and open space or to integrate conservation measures on working lands? Recent research makes a case for each of these approaches and...

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“I think that when we finish 2024, overall deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon will be between 60% and 65% less than deforestation in 2022,” said Carlos Nobre.

How did Brazil slash deforestation — and can others recreate the win?

The comeback of Lula and Silva capitalized on the policies they once built. Their success can be a model for climate development — and show where financing does the most good.

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Gerade probegesessen, denn gleich werde ich bei Wir in Bayern (@brkommunikation.bsky.social) kochen. Währenddessen besprechen wir, ob wir die Regenwaldabholzung bis 2030 wirklich stoppen können und was die Klimakonferenz gebracht hat. Wenn dich das interessiert, dann schalte doch um 16:15 ein.

The m&m was born in a mix of WW2 military procurement and nepotism within Hersheys. That and more I learned in this excellent history of the US chocolate industry

Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

Podcast Episode · Acquired · 16/12/2024 · 3h 53m

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It’s our duty to ensure that rainforest protection doesn’t harm the most vulnerable communities. The EU Deforestation Regulation risks just that. So we built EUDR Tracer – the free tool for smallholders and cooperatives. We are testing it now. Please let me know if you have any suggestions!

Planting a tree is easy. Bringing back a forest is hard. On the Yucatan Peninsula of southern Mexico – one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots – we are trying to turn former cattle pastures back into forests.

Three weeks ago, I missed the best news of the year – a real ray of sunshine: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by another 30.6% over the past year.

Amazon deforestation in Brazil plunges 31% to lowest level in 9 years

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by 30.6% over the past year, reaching the lowest level of destruction in nine years, according to data from the country’s national space research institut...

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Vor vier Jahren haben zwei Journalisten von Die Zeit unsere Arbeit genau durchleuchtet und danach eine Reihe von Vorwürfen veröffentlicht. Da war manches unberechtigt, aber wirklich weh getan hat natürlich die berechtigte Kritik. [Kurzer 🧵]

“When the South Korean president declares martial law on Tuesday night, I am fairly drunk, as is much of the city.”

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6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

Great news for rainforests: the EU parliament has conceded in its negotiation with the European Council. EUDR will be postponed by a year as planned, but not watered down.

EU deforestation law: Council and Parliament agree on its targeted amendment

The Council reached a provisional agreement with the European Parliament on a proposed targeted amendment of the EU deforestation regulation, postponing its date of application by 12 months.

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At 6pm today, the European Parliament and Council will come together to negotiate the future of our rainforests. ⬇️

The latest draft of the climate finance goal (aka NCQG) has caused outrage at #COP29. At the heart of the anger is the amount --- just $250 billion per year. Developing countries have been demanding $1 trillion. 🧵 @devex.com