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One recent article I read was about how Vietnamese and Chinese businesses have being coming to into Laos to set up plantations to export China and causing it to become one of the country with the highest deforestation rate.
This site compile articles on Laos both original and from other new sources if you want to read (including RFA
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"Please live in abject poverty amongst the trees to protect us first world countries from global warming!" is the impression I get from these kinds of articles.
but laos is already doing reforestation programs, they realise this is a big issue. they went up from 40% forests (of total area) in 2010 to 62% now. their target is to reach 70% again, which also was the total area of forests in the 1940s. (https://dicf.unepgrid.ch/lao-peoples-democratic-republic/forest)
they planted 34 million trees in 2024 alone (https://english.news.cn/20240529/da596e24c61c482d9240e481f6308fc3/c.html)
laos is basically just forest, one of the countries with the most forest area in the region, so the health of the forest is a big deal to them