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Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation

2014-09-24 05:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid. Norway will pay the impoverished West African country $150m (91.4m) to stop deforestation by 2020. There have been fears that the Ebola crisis would see increased logging in a country desperate for cash. Norwegian officials confirmed details of the deal to the BBC at the UN climate summit in New York. Liberia's forests are not as big as other countries but the country...

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