World leaders pose for a family photo on Friday in the second day of COP30 U.N. Climate Summit in Belem, Brazil.

A major proposal to protect forests worldwide is sure to a major topic of discussion of the day.

Financed by interest-bearing debt instead of donations, the fund, called the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, seeks to turn the economic logic of deforestation on its head by making it more lucrative for governments to keep their trees rather than cut them down.

Despite the ambitious proposal, reduced participation in the summit revealed divisions between countries and focus on many other things happening around the world.

The leaders of the planet’s three biggest polluters, China, the United States and India, were completely absent from the preliminary gathering of world leaders ahead of the full climate talks, which begin next week.

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