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The country that cuts down old growth forests for open cast mining wants to protect the Amazon, seems a bit rich.
It is vital today, thank you, Germany. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)


Of this total, $38 million is a donation to the Amazon Fund, Schulze told reporters in capital Brasilia.
Germany also pledged to provide $87 million in low-interest loans for farmers to restore degraded areas and $34 million for Amazon states to protect the rainforest.
The Amazon, which covers an area twice the size of India, acts as a buffer against climate change because its trees absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide, and roughly two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest lies in Brazil.


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