European nations are throwing their weight behind a $2.5 billion plan to save the Congo rainforest, a document seen by Reuters showed, launching a conservation scheme that may steal some thunder from the flagship initiative of COP30 host Brazil.

Mobilizing more money to protect and restore the world’s last remaining rainforests is a central goal of the UN climate talks, deliberately held in the Brazilian Amazon this year to focus on the need to fight emissions from rampant deforestation.

The French-led initiative — backed by Germany, Norway, Belgium and Britain — is called "The Belem Call for the Forests of the Congo Basin." Backers expect to mobilise resources to help countries protect the second-largest rainforest in the world. The document written in French, dated November 6, was sign

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