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Miliband promotes plan to buy rainforests
By Patrick Hennessy, Political Editor
(Filed: 01/10/2006)
Ministers are proposing an extraordinary scheme to tackle climate change in which the Amazon rainforest would be turned into an international trust and its trees sold to individuals and groups.
Plans for the wholesale "privatisation" of the rainforest will be raised by David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, at a summit in Mexico this week.
The scheme, endorsed by Tony Blair, aims to protect the plants and wildlife from logging. About 13 million hectares of the world's forests are lost annually to deforestation, according to the Government.
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At last year's meeting of the G8 group of leading industrialised nations, Britain pledged to take a lead on climate-change programmes.
Mr Miliband will set out his plans at a meeting in Monterrey of ministers from 20 of the biggest energy-using nations. The plan is the brainchild of Frank Field, the Labour MP and former minister. It appeals to the Prime Minister and Mr Miliband, according to their officials, because it would "capture the imagination of the world" and "bring the international community together".
But both emphasise the idea is at an early stage and admit that there would be "sovereignty issues" involving the government of Brazil, which is home to almost all the Amazon rainforest.
Mr Miliband said: "Obviously there are sovereignty issues but deforestation is a massive issue… and any plan, however radical, is worth looking at." It would involve the creation of an international body to buy the rainforest before setting up a trust to sell trees. The buyers would be "stake-holders" in the rainforest.
A key figure behind the scenes has been Johan Eliasch, the Swedish-born multi-millionaire businessman who is deputy treasurer of the Conservative Party. Earlier this year he bought 400,000 acres in the Amazon rainforest for an estimated £8 million.
Ola Amigos do DB , depois de um tempo fora estou de Volta.
Revoltante, apoiado pelo Tony Blair.
O Lula, como presidente deveria fazer um pronunciamento sobre esse assunto de extrema importância.
Se eu fosse ele gostaria um Pedido formal de Desculpas por parte do Governo Britanico. Isso é uma afronta contra a Soberania Nacional.
Abraço