- Rainforests are in lower income countries
- LICs borrow money from wealthier countries to cope with emergencies
- Money is paid back with interest
- Logging, farming and mining is allowed to pay back the debt
- A conservation swap means that the countries debt is paid off in exchange for a guarantee the money is spent on conservation
- e.g in 2008 the USA reduced Peru's debt by $25m in exchange for rainforest conservation
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