US to help Amazon nations fight illicit finance, Yellen says

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The United States is launching a new initiative to help South American nations disrupt illicit activities that harm the Amazon rainforest, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced Saturday in Brazil.

She said these “nature crimes” generate hundreds of billions of dollars each year and “often entail misusing and abusing the US financial system.”

 

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