[situationista]

Just to make sure it's clear to everyone who's commenting about how great this is - in return for UAE paying to protect Liberia's forests, it gets to burn more fossil fuels while claiming to be reducing its carbon output. Not sure whether this is bad news from a climate perspective, but it certainly isn't good news.

[politelemon]

Basically a perfect example of Goodhart's Law taken to capitalist extremes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

[Loughla]

I mean, if the forest was going to be developed, and this stops that, it has to be worth something, correct?

[pyrale]

> if the forest was going to be developed

That's a nice euphemism.