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Brazil 'surprised' UK not investing in new rainforest fund it helped design
Brazil was "a bit surprised" Britain hasn't contributed to a new investment fund to protect tropical forests, despite having helped to design it, a senior official has told Sky News. The Amazon nation has used its role as host of the COP30 climate talks to tout its new scheme, which it drew up with the help of countries including the UK and Indonesia.
With Britain's budget day looming, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer decided against chipping in when he visited the Amazonian city of Belem this month. The news came out the day before Brazil was about to launch it.
"The Brazilians were livid" about the timing, one source told Sky News. Garo Batmanian, director-general of the Brazilian Forestry Service and coordinator of the new scheme, said: "We were expecting [Britain to pay in] because the UK was the very first one to support us." The so-called Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) was drawn up with the help of "very bright people from the UK.
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