For more background on why WTO rules were seen as an engine for further forest loss, see this paper by John W. Friede, ‘Global Trade and the Rainforests: Corporate Growth vs Indigenous Prosperity in Tropical Countries’ http://environment.yale.edu/publication-series/documents/downloads/0-9/98friede.pdf. 

For more on Andrew Mitchell’s estimate that about US$135 billion is invested each year in activities that damage the tropical rainforests, see this link: https://globalcanopy.org/new-analysis-and-ranking-c-135-billion-export-trade-forest-risk-commodities-continues-to-destroy.

The Prince’s Rainforests Project’s proposals for an Emergency Package of funding to halt deforestation can be found in the report presented to G20 Leaders in London in April 2009 https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Report%20...

The Daily Telegraph published this report on the meeting of the G20 Leaders’ rainforests meeting in London  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5078420/G20-summit-Prince-convenes-rainforest-meeting.html

This article in Grist summed up the outcomes of the Copenhagen Summit. The money pledged for forest conservation is mentioned in the ‘Major Financial Commitments’ section. http://grist.org/article/2009-12-23-what-you-need-to-know-following-copenhagen-climate-summit/.

This press announcement sets out the intention of the UK, Norway and Germany to spend an additional US$5 billion on tropical forest conservation

http://www.bmub.bund.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Download_PDF/Klimaschutz/joint_statement_redd_cop21_en_bf.pdf. 

Brazil’s national plan adopted at Paris can be viewed here: http://www4.unfccc.int/submissions/INDC/Published%20Documents/Brazil/1/BRAZIL%20iNDC%20english%20FINAL.pdf

Indonesia’s national plan adopted at Paris can be viewed here:

For a summary of the importance of forests in meeting the aims of the Paris Agreement this 2017 paper in Mongabay covers the main points: ‘New research shows why forests are absolutely essential to meeting Paris Climate Agreement goals’ https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/new-research-shows-why-forests-are-absolutely-essential-to-meeting-paris-climate-agreement-goals/.