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New Firefighting Fund Launches but Funding Gap Remains as Wildfires Worsen Worldwide – WTOP News
The fund is anchored by $35 million in foundation commitments and draws on fire-response models from Bolivia and Brazil, organizers said.
- A new fund aiming to raise $100 million for Amazon firefighting was announced this week at New York Climate Week and the U.N. General Assembly to improve detection and response across South America.
- Drawing inspiration from existing models like a 15-year-old Indigenous fire brigade program in Bolivia and a fire-detection camera network in Brazil, the fund aims to address worsening fire conditions as drought turns these ecosystems into tinderboxes.
- Renaissance Philanthropy and Conservation X Labs lead the project, anchored by a $30 million contribution from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and $5 million from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Renaissance Philanthropy president Kumar Garg said, "the next couple of years are really going to matter."
- While the fund targets South America, international support for recent fires in Southeast Asia remains piecemeal, with Bhima Yudhistira, executive director of the Jakarta-based Center of Economic and Law Studies , calling the exclusion "a big mistake."
- A U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network report released Thursday stated forests remain "chronically underfinanced," as politics discourage governments from investing in long-term mitigation despite the need for $66.8 billion by 2030 to restore tropical forests.
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New firefighting fund launches but funding gap remains as wildfires worsen worldwide – WTOP News
NEW YORK (AP) — A United Nations report released Thursday shows that there is still a multibillion dollar funding gap for preserving tropical forests, which are key to fighting climate change. A new fund that aims to raise $100 million for firefighting in South America, home to the Amazon rainforest, was announced this week at...
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New firefighting fund launches but funding gap remains as wildfires worsen worldwide
NEW YORK (AP) — A United Nations report released Thursday shows that there is still a multibillion dollar funding gap for preserving tropical forests, which are key to fighting climate
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