US EditionGermany Pledges €1 Billion to Brazil's Rainforest Fund
Germany commits €1 billion to Brazil’s Tropical Forests Forever Facility to fund rainforest preservation and penalize deforestation, supporting up to 70 developing countries, officials said.
- On Wednesday at COP30 in Belém, Germany committed €1 billion to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's Tropical Forests Forever Facility .
- Designed as a preservation-and-penalty mechanism, the TFFF will be overseen by an 18-member board split between rainforest nations and donor countries, with the World Bank as trustee.
- Early commitments include Norway pledging $3 billion over 10 years, Brazil and Indonesia planning $1 billion each, aiming for a fund potentially reaching $125 billion and distributing $25 billion annually.
- Local Quilombola communities near Belém face titling delays and threats from local businesses and criminal groups, while the Menino Jesus Quilombola community of 28 families contests a 200-hectare landfill planned 500 meters from their homes with legal action filed by the Public Defender's Office of Pará.
- Research shows land titling boosts forest preservation, with Quilombo territories maintaining 91 percent of their forests versus 76 percent in non-titled areas, while slow titling means 1,802 open cases could take 2,188 years at current speeds.
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Fabio Nogueira, a leader of the Menino Jesus Quilombola Afro-descendant community, stands in front of a proposed landfill, which is 500m from their homes. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPSBy Joyce ChimbiBELÉM, Brazil, Nov 20 2025 (IPS) Just 30 minutes from where the UN climate negotiations are unfolding in the port city of Belém, Afro-descendant communities are engaged in a fierce struggle for the full recognition and legal titling of their ancestral ter…
With the TFFF fund, Brazil wants to finance the global protection of tropical forests by means of capital gains. Some experts see this as a breakthrough. Critics, however, warn of a risky financial experiment.
Germany has pledged one billion euros for the global forest protection fund TFFF at the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil. As Federal Development Minister Alabali Radovan and Federal Environment Minister Schneider announced in Belém, Germany will participate in the next ten years with this sum.
Since the Chancellor's remarks on Belém, Germany's reputation at the climate summit has been shattered. A contribution to Brazil's forest fund could help to repair it. However, other construction sites of the conference remain.
Germany pledges €1 billion to Brazil's rainforest fund
Germany’s support for Brazil’s new rainforest protection fund adds momentum to a global effort that will reward forest conservation, penalize deforestation and direct resources to Indigenous and traditional communities.
In order to protect rainforests, a new pot of money has been set up – Germany will be there with an amount of one billion euros. The EU increases the pressure on the exit of oil and gas. Turkey will host 2026.
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