Norway pledges billions for rainforest preservation

obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

Norway's left-center government coalition and the opposition parties in Parliament have agreed to fund rainforest preservation efforts with 3 billion Norwegian kroner (about 560 million U.S. dollars) a year, the Norwegian Newspaper Aftenposten reported on Sunday.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg discussed rainforest preservation just last week with his British counterpart Gordon Brown, who also promotes measures to preserve rainforests, the report said.

It added that the proposal for Norway to fund rainforest preservation efforts came from both Friends of the Earth Norway and the Rainforest Foundation Norway and the opposition parties in the parliament included it in their negotiations for climate change measures.

It remained unclear when the first funding allotment of the fund would be released, but opposition politicians from both the Conservative and the Liberal parties said they had fought hard for funding to begin next year, according to Aftenposten.

The newspaper added that rainforest preservation is viewed as an important means of reducing carbon emissions, because it can halt the burning that often comes with deforestation.

Some experts claim that stopping the destruction of the world's rainforests is among the fastest, cheapest and most meaningful methods to reduce the amount of dangerous emissions into the atmosphere.

Source:Xinhua

The Inquisitor · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 772

Yeah for us Norwegians!!!!!

Hey, here's an outtake from the movie Sicko which demonstrates how deficient the health care system is in the US. The film director, Michael Moore, thought that no one would ever believe it is telling the truth. It's about seven minutes and touches on Norway's health system as well as their prison system.

http://novakeo.com/?p=1155

enjoy