Oil companies and banks will profit from UN forest protection scheme

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Redd scheme designed to prevent deforestation but critics call it 'privatisation' of natural resources

Some of the world's largest oil, mining, car and gas corporations will make hundreds of millions of dollars from a UN-backed forest protection scheme, according to a new report from the Friends of the...

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