The vast majority (93.8%) of the amount is donated by the government in Norway; The initiative has been stalled under Bolsonaro
The Amazon fund has already received about R$3.4 billion since its inception in 2009. The reserve is controlled by border (National Bank for Economic and Social Development) It aims to finance environmental conservation activities.
The initiative is funded by donations. The majority of the funds (93.8%) came from Norway. Germany (5.7%) and Petrobras (0.5%) are the other two largest donors, but in much smaller proportions than the Norwegian government. The data is available in the Amazon Fund Annual Report 2022, most recent. Here it is full (9 MB).
Read the face values each person donated:
- Norway – 3.2 billion Brazilian reals
- Germany – R$ 192.7 million;
- Petrobras – 17.3 million Brazilian reals.
These numbers only go back from 2009 to 2018. The Amazon fund stood steadily throughout the former president’s administration Jair Bolsonaro (PL), which deactivated the Cofa (Steering Committee for the Amazon Fund).
Record of contributions in 2013, under management Dilma Rousseff (PT). That year, 1.4 billion reais were transferred to initiative funds.
Cofa is resumed in 2023 by the President of BNDES, Aloisio Mercadante. There have been 3 publicly disclosed donations this year. It adds at least R$3.3 billion and has the potential to double the amount of the historical series:
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- when the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Labor Party) went to the country in February, his US counterpart, Joe Biden, said he would send approx 260 million Brazilian reals Down;
- In April, the President of the United States announce Who will donate? on 2.5 billion Brazilian reals to deposit
- United kingdom – On the Labor Party’s visit to the European country, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak He said Who will send 500 million Brazilian reals;
- Switzerland – advertiser which will give money to the fund, but did not specify the amounts.
BNDES has not yet contracted and has absorbed announced resources in 2023.
payments
Just under half (R$1.5 billion) of the amounts received by the Amazon Fund have been disbursed. There were 102 environmental protection projects supported with money. Information included in the Bookings Portfolio Report for April 2023, most recent. Here it is full (170 KB).
2017 was the year with the largest amount of payments since the creation of the Amazon fund, at R$224 million. It totaled R$90 million in 2022, the lowest cash flow in 9 years.
Most of the disbursed funds (R$775 million) were allocated to projects covering more than one state. Parra has received the largest single capital from the fund: R$128 million.
Other secondary values stand out:
- 48 million Brazilian reals For projects outside of Amazon’s legal territory;
- 24 million Brazilian reals Abroad.
Lula in Belem
The Labor Party will travel to the capital, Para, on Tuesday (8 August 2023) for the Amazon Summit, which it has promoted ACTO (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization). The group includes 8 member states (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela).
In addition to Latin American countries, Germany and Norway were also invited, as they are the largest funders of the Amazon Fund. France will be part of the action because of French Guiana, the country’s territory in South America with part of the jungle.
Many ministers of the current government have mobilized and are already in Belém for the event. Since his presidential campaign in 2022, Lula has highlighted the environmental agenda in his speeches.
New donations to the Amazon Fund may be announced during the President’s stay in Belém.
