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Poorer nations need $60 bn a year to protect nature: NGOs
France24 ^ | March 1, 2022

Posted on 03/01/2022 7:48:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Nairobi (AFP) – Wealthy countries should provide at least $60 billion every year to the world's poorest nations to combat biodiversity loss, an alliance of environment groups said Tuesday.

The appeal by WWF, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other green groups was launched on the sidelines of a major UN environment meeting in Nairobi.

It comes ahead of key talks for a UN biodiversity summit to be held in China that will see nations hammer out conservation targets for the next decade.

The $60 billion (53.67 billion euros) would address "the disproportionate impact of wealthy country consumption habits on biodiversity," the signatories said in a joint statement.

"Wealthy nations are driving much of the loss of nature in developing countries through imported goods and have a responsibility to address this impact," said Brian O'Donnell, director of Campaign for Nature.

An boost in financial assistance should go hand in glove with an end to public and private investment that damages the environment, said Marco Lambertini from WWF.

"It is feasible. It requires political will to make it happen," Lambertini said of the $60 billion target.

"It is not a tax for biodiversity. This is an investment" and made clear business sense, he added.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 03/01/2022 7:48:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The appeal by WTF, the International Union for Conservation of Nature
2 posted on 03/01/2022 7:50:59 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let the far lefties start a GoFunMe account for them. The libs will send them 60B in no time.


3 posted on 03/01/2022 7:52:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas." - Col. David Crockett to the U.S. Congress.)
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At that point why not just buy the land and hold it as a nature reserve


4 posted on 03/01/2022 7:52:39 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And of course these groups will “administer” the money = pocket it themselves with the Big Guy getting his 10%.


5 posted on 03/01/2022 7:53:20 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Send them birth control.


6 posted on 03/01/2022 7:54:07 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I only need $5 billion a year for me to do my part to “protect nature”.


7 posted on 03/01/2022 7:56:26 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just for sh*ts and giggles, I’d get all the climate change celebrities together and the environmental elites and have them raise the money. They won’t give it up willingly, for sure. But, enough for one country. $60,000,000,000

But, you get the money one way or another and tell them that it’ll all go to one country as an experiment. No oversight. Nothing.

They’d be screaming bloody murder that no one is watching that money and where it’s being spent.

That’s one of the reasons they love pushing the government to spend the money. There is no oversight. All the business goes to friends and family. A kickback here and there and, VOILA, we saved the world but we need more money because there wasn’t enough the first time around.


8 posted on 03/01/2022 7:57:45 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Talk to Bill Gates, George Soros and the other socialists who claim to care about global climate whatever.


9 posted on 03/01/2022 7:58:43 AM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! A 70's)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

they should have a bake sale


10 posted on 03/01/2022 8:00:04 AM PST by wny ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So this is what NATO is defending against Putin?


11 posted on 03/01/2022 8:01:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The support of destructive environmental practices creating products of interest to more wealthy nations is a problem that can be overcome. The solution is to monetize the preservation of unique biotopes. Such is the case with a variety of unique environments in poorer countries which are sustainably harvesting plants and animals of interest to those in other countries. Banning these creatures has produced their demise. Pouring government money into simply trying to preserve such environments have limited success. Providing income for indigenous people to sustainably harvest the produce of their homeland guarantees their protection.


12 posted on 03/01/2022 8:03:37 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Contempt is the essential tool of the tyrant.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Have none of these assclowns watched “Life After People” on the history channel? Sheesh. Muvver erf will be just fine without us and hardly a trace of us will remain. :>}


13 posted on 03/01/2022 8:05:27 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And after it ends up in various pockets, 60 billion will buy a bag of birdseed.


14 posted on 03/01/2022 8:06:09 AM PST by robel
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We can certainly balk at how the third world countries are lined up to get wealthy by Climate change.....off everybody else. But it’s going to go down because it’s what the NWO is using to get nations on one page.


15 posted on 03/01/2022 8:06:53 AM PST by caww ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is what safari tags and private business conservation are for. Government money will only go to massive corruption.


16 posted on 03/01/2022 8:09:28 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How long until the US is deemed the only rich country and every other country is deemed poor?


17 posted on 03/01/2022 8:15:51 AM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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One of my favorite statements from Trump is when he chastised the UN for treating China as a “developing nation” on things like climate restrictions, when China is the 2nd largest economy in the world.


18 posted on 03/01/2022 8:21:24 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obviously just a way to take money from “rich” (productive) countries and give it to “poor” (indolent nonproducer) ones.


19 posted on 03/01/2022 8:24:12 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

$60 billion. Not a trillion? They are really slipping!


20 posted on 03/01/2022 8:34:15 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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