Qualla: Yasuni-ITT Initiative https://qualla.com/yasuni-itt-initiative en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Yasuni-ITT Initiative https://qualla.com/yasuni-itt-initiative Yasuni-ITT Initiative: Introduction https://qualla.com/yasuni-itt-initiative/ The proposal was simple enough to fit in a sentence. Ecuador would not drill one billion barrels of oil under the most biodiverse patch of forest on Earth if the international community paid it $3.6 billion, which was half the oil's 2007 market value. Rafael Correa announced it at the United Nations General Assembly in 2007, and for a few years it seemed like something new was possible. Six years later, Correa gave up. Drills moved in. What happened next is one of the stranger chapters in environmental politics, because the people of Ecuador eventually finished what the world's wealthy governments would not.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/f/1/yasuni-itt-initiative-wp/6rf1-yasuni-itt-initiative-the-pitch.mp3 0:06 3 full Yasuni-ITT Initiative: What Didn't Happen https://qualla.com/yasuni-itt-initiative/ By 2012, only $200 million in pledges had materialized. The Ecuadorian government briefly announced it would move forward, but the commission Correa formed in July 2013 to evaluate progress concluded that results were economically insufficient. On August 15, 2013, Correa scrapped...

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