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A bold new investment fund aims to channel billions into tropical forest protection – one key change can make it better

  • Written by Jason Gray, Environmental Attorney, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles
A bold new investment fund aims to channel billions into tropical forest protection – one key change can make it betterCattle, the No. 1 cause of tropical deforestation, roam on tropical forest land that was stripped bare in Acre, Brazil.AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

The world is losing vast swaths of forests to agriculture, logging, mining and fires every year — more than 20 million acres in 2024 alone, roughly the size of South Carolina.

That’s bad news...

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