Where Are The Market Forces When You Need Them?

Posted on April 1, 2015 by agogo22

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More than half of the world’s forest loss between 1990 and 2010 took place in Brazil and Indonesia. Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters More than half of the world’s forest loss between 1990 and 2010 took place in Brazil and Indonesia. Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters

Thanks to the Guardian‘s environment-focused reporting for this sad evidence on the state of affairs:

Subsidies to industries that cause deforestation worth 100 times more than aid to prevent it

Brazil and Indonesia paid over $40bn in subsidies to industries that drive rainforest destruction between 2009 and 2012 – compared to $346m in conservation aid they received to protect forests, according to new research

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