Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation

Re:Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation by lunarcave on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @08:39AM (#8355042)

For context, this is about 0.00021% of the entire norwegian reserve [1].

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Re:Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation by bulltale on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:27AM (#8355472)

The fraction is 0.00021. The percentage is 0.021%. Still small though.

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Re:Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation by ezhux on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @09:32AM (#8355235)

for context: Russia has 12 times more proven oil reserves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil...). Now imagine russians in this situation.

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Re:Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation by kozlovsky on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:09AM (#8355382)

Well, Russia just wrote off $32 billions of Cuba debt[1]. I'm not telling that this is the same thing, but still...

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Re:Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation by ezhux on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:20AM (#8355436)

that's really unusual for Russians. Cuba has plenty of peninsulas waiting be annexed... :)

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Re:Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation by toomuchtodo on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @12:13PM (#8356065)

It was supposed to be a snub at the US, as we recently renewed trade sanctions against Cuba.

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Re:Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation by Expez on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @08:49AM (#8355076)

None of that money is used to pay for this.

Well, indirectly it might be, as some of the profits from invested oil money are made available to the government to spend each year.

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