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Rebecca Speare-Cole

UK pledges £239m to forest-rich nations to fight climate change at Cop29

Signs of drought are visible on the Amazon River, near Leticia, Colombia. (Ivan Valencia/AP) - (AP)

The UK has pledged £239 million in funding to help forest-rich nations tackle climate change as the UN climate summit reaches its final day.

The money announced at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, will go to countries like Colombia and Indonesia to support the critical role of forests as “carbon sinks” that absorb huge amounts of carbon from the world’s atmosphere.

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