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I love the idealism of this but: 1) the price is far too low to have any effect, I am guessing. 2) won't this money go straight into someone's pocket? 3) how on earth do they expect this to be enforced?


We do this in several other countries already. We only actually pay the money if they meet certain goals. Currently we have 4 billion NOK (632 million dollars) still standing in a bank account, because the countries we intended to pay the money to hasn't met the goals we set as a pre-condition. Then again we paid 3 billion NOK (474 million dollars) last year, so it does work to some extent.


This is an interesting approach of which i never heard before. Is there somewhere where i can see a list of the other countries?

Edit: Found it on the gov. site . The one related to this article also includes Peru: http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/smk/press-center/Press-rele...


2) won't this money go straight into someone's pocket? 3) how on earth do they expect this to be enforced?

Sometimes #3 can be solved by #2. "Hey corrupt minster/police chief/army general, want more of that bribe? Get your corrupt police officers/soliders to stop those people cutting down trees! Since you don't have to obey the law that much, beat up those peasants who are chopping down trees"


When it comes to bribes / "lobbying", apparently our government prefers to go after US politicians (by paying Washington think thanks to produce "research" on various subjects of importance to Norway). Thankfully most of the stuff they lobby for is actually an improvement on typical US government policy (then again I'd be biased - I'm Norwegian).


Did you read the article? It's not just a lump sum cash payment for a promise. A couple of relevant quotes from the article:

> Under the terms of the agreement, Norway will help Liberia to initially build up the capacity to monitor and police the forests.

> Liberia will refrain from issuing any new logging concessions until all existing ones have been reviewed by an independent body.

> Ultimately the Norwegians will pay for results, with independent verification that trees remain standing.




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