Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has told him that her country wants to contribute to the Amazon Fund, a Brazil-led initiative aimed at fighting deforestation.
Indonesia, home to a third of the world's rainforests, has seen its annual deforestation drop by 8.4%, its environment ministry said on Monday, attributing the fall to better control of fires and stricter permitting for tree clearance.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday called for better collaboration with neighbouring Malaysia to fight what he called "discrimination" against their countries' palm oil products, as a new European Union law threatens to dent exports of the commodity.
Indonesia sees the European Union as conducting "regulatory imperialism" with its new deforestation law, but both sides would still engage in talks on a free trade deal, an Indonesian minister said on Thursday.
The world's two biggest palm oil producers Indonesia and Malaysia will send top officials to the European Union next week to voice concern over a new deforestation law they believe could be detrimental to small farming businesses.