International Forest Meeting on Interim Finance The Prince of Wales addresses the meeting  The Prince meets indigenous leaders attending the meeting The Prince of Wales praised governments for reaching a consensus on emergency funding to tackle tropical deforestation at a meeting held at St James's Palace last week. The consensus comes in the form of an inter-governmental report produced this month by the Informal Working Group (IWG) comprising 35 countries that was set up after the meeting of world leaders convened by The Prince at St James's Palace in April. Tony Juniper, Special Adviser to The Prince's Rainforests Project and former Director of Friends of the Earth hailed the report as a breakthrough: "This is the first time there has been a consensus among governments on a mechanism to deal with the underlying causes of deforestation, which are mainly economic." At last week's meeting Brazil and Guyana provided examples of interim finance in action, while representatives from other rainforest nations including Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia also attended. There was encouraging news from the developed nations present at the meeting. Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, indicated UK Government support for the proposals; the Norwegian Government has shown exceptional leadership by funding the two examples of interim funding provided at the meeting; and the US announced a sum of $275m to be spent predominantly on rainforests in 2010. The PRP has also received overwhelming support from the private sector - over 300 companies have been involved and several leaders from around the world gave their insights. Moreover, many of the major environmental non-profits have made an enormous contribution to the work of the PRP, with leaders from Greenpeace, WWF, RSPB and Conservation International explaining why interim finance is so important and stating that they are ready to help ensure that such a mechanism is successful when implemented. The results are in. Drumroll, please...   Our public awareness campaign has been a huge success. Since May, there have been 1.6 billion opportunities to see the campaign message. We have had more than one million visitors to our website from 209 countries/territories and over ¼ million people sent a Rainforest SOS message. Our campaign films have been viewed over six million times, 5,000 people recorded their own video message with the frog and we have more than 30,000 friends across four social networks. Our Schools Programme has also engaged 620,000 pupils from 1,200 schools in rainforest learning activities. Click here to watch our campaign highlights and see some of our favourite moments. Win a copy of the PRP limited edition book   Attendees at the meeting last week were presented with a copy of our special edition book, Rainforests: Lifebelt for an Endangered Planet, which contains photographs of Daniel Beltrá's journey through the rainforests of Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia, fully funded by Sony. Those world leaders who attended our meeting in April this year will also receive a copy. The statistics of the Rainforest SOS Campaign, outlined above, were included in this book to demonstrate the enormous public support from you and others for action to stop deforestation. We have one of these limited edition books to give away to one of our supporters. For your chance to be entered to win a copy, click here.      COUNTDOWN TO COPENHAGEN: 2 Weeks Thank you for responding to our call to action!

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