Author: Lucy Purdy / Source: Positive News
The cash pot, announced this week, will be spent on expanding an Interpol taskforce to investigate the gangs that drive illegal deforestation
Halting and reversing land degradation and tropical deforestation could have a huge, positive impact on climate change.
To this end, the Norwegian government has announced a fund of 145m kroner (£12m) to help fight forest crime such as illegal tree clearances.The fund, announced on Wednesday, will go to a partnership between Interpol, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the Rhipto Norwegian Center for Global Analyses to combat illegal deforestation. Organised criminals make up to US$152bn (£116bn) a year illegally cutting down invaluable tropical forests.
There are multiple opportunities to break the law along the deforestation ‘value chain’, said the government in a statement this week,…
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