Posts Tagged ‘rainforests’

Norway pays £150m to save rainforests

November 11, 2009
Morning News Online, Tuesday 10 November 2009
Norway will provide financial support to Guyana to protect its rainforests

Norway will provide financial support to Guyana to protect its rainforests

Norway has agreed to pay Guyana up to $250 million (£150m) by 2015 to preserve rainforests as part of a scheme to slow climate change.

Norway, which has led donor nations in slowing tropical deforestation with a budget of 3 billion Norwegian crowns (£320m) a year, said on Monday it wanted to help Guyana maintain forests that cover 75 per cent of its land.

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Prince Charles: Facing the Future

July 12, 2009

BBC, July 9, 2009

HRH The Prince of Wales gave BBC One’s annual Richard Dimbleby Lecture at St James’s Palace, London.

Prince Charles’ lecture, the 33rd held in honour of the broadcaster who died in 1965, was entitled Facing the Future and was broadcast on BBC One last night.

The Prince of Wales’ website has the text of the lecture.