The Brazilian government has pledged $2 billion for a new Amazon reforestation project that aims to plant over 1.5 billion native trees by 2030. The initiative will be monitored with satellite AI and executed with help from local tribes and NGOs.
This is Brazil’s strongest environmental policy move in a decade and is expected to be discussed at the upcoming COP30 summit. Deforestation had reached alarming levels in the past few years, endangering biodiversity and global climate stability.
Environmentalists in South Asia welcome the project, hoping it will set a precedent for mountain forest protection in Nepal and India’s Northeast.
