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The workshop held from 02 to 04
February 2021 comes after the "second CBFP Civil Society Day" organized
on 10 December 2020 in Kinshasa with the support of the German CBFP
Facilitation.
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Following the GLF Biodiversity’s One
World - One Health online conference, during which the Sustainable
Wildlife Management Programme ( SWM) launched the White paper and
Advisory Note entitled : “Build Back Better in a Post-Covid-19 world:
Reducing future wildlife-borne spillover of disease to humans”, we are
delighted to announce that the publications are now available in French.
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BERLIN – At today's online Climate
Adaptation Summit, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged 220 million
euros for enhanced support for the least developed countries' efforts to
adapt to climate change and for the expansion of climate insurance
programmes.
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African Development Bank President
Akinwumi A. Adesina has been announced as a champion of Africa’s Great
Green Wall (GGW) initiative. The appointment was made at a forum held in
the margins of the One Planet Summit 2021 to mobilise support for the
ambitious project to plant an 8,000 km swathe of trees and other
vegetation across the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa.
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UN Climate Change News, 1 February –
The UN Climate Change Secretariat today announced Regional Climate Weeks
in 2021 and 2022, key meetings that will help build regional momentum
for the annual UN Climate Change Conferences and drive forward regional
implementation of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
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A study by the University of
Wolverhampton’s Centre for International Development and Training
(CIDT), has revealed that global climate goals and livelihoods of forest
communities are at risk due to increased illegal logging in the forests
of the Congo Basin.
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Since 2013, ATIBT has implemented a
major program to involve the private sector in FLEGT, REDD+ and
certification processes. This program is currently coming to an end
after 7 years of implementation in 5 countries.
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In collaboration with the Forest is
life scientific team from the Faculty Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University
of Liège), Nature + published at the end of 2020 a book entitled
"Development and implementation of a management plan de la fauna -
Technical guide for managers of production forests in Central Africa ”.
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Held as part of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), COP21 resulted in the
Paris Agreement, which was ratified by the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) in 2016.
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The Adaptation Fund received new pledges from several contributor
governments totaling nearly USD 116 million. The pledges coincided with
the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and Climate Ambition Summit
2020. The Adaptation Fund Board had raised its resource mobilization target
for 2020 by 30% to USD 120 million in November to account for its USD
280 million active project pipeline...
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In the small remote village of Dia, on
the edge of Messok Dja, one of the last sanctuaries of forest elephants
and great apes in the world, children had been out of school for over 4
years. In July 2016, Ezra and his friends celebrated the end of the
school year. Little did they know it would be their last school year "No
one dreamed that would be our last day of school!” He recalls.
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To inspire and support these actions,
the Cool Coalition and the Climate & Clean Air Coalition have
developed a brief that outlines shovel-ready strategies, best practices
and case studies from around the world.
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With its creation being supported by the APEF Program and
spearheaded by the APN, the Ennedi Natural and Cultural Reserve (ENCR)
was officially created in February 2019. Managed since its creation by
the African Parks Network (APN), the ENCR is Chad’s newest protected
area. As it enters its third year of management, the balance sheet is
quite positive for this reserve spanning 40,000 km² on the edge of the
Sahara.
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Since 2000, the Scimitar-horned Oryx, a
species once scattered across North Africa, has been classified as
"extinct in the wild" by the Red List of the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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Meeting restoration targets requires a
holistic system to track and document progress while consistently
improving management practices. Tracking restoration will help
governments, local communities and NGOs show the progress made on their
commitments and scale up successful projects, and positive results will
inspire donors to continue investing (WRI 2020).
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We bid farewell to 2020 with little
regret—it has been an unusually difficult year for most, including in
the tropical forest sector. But even in these grimmest of times, there
is cause for optimism. With the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration upon
us, the latest edition of the TFU presents stories about restoring and
sustainably using forests. We look forward to 2021 in solidarity and
hope.
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The first UNEP synthesis report is
titled: “Making Peace With Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the
climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies” and is based on
evidence from global environmental assessments.
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The first school year of the Master of
Wood Sciences will start in September 2021 at the Faculty of Sciences of
the University of Montpellier to train executives, engineers and future
researchers, who will be the driving force behind development and
innovation in local and tropical companies in the Forest-Wood sector and
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This week Ursula von der Leyen
signalled the EU’s desire to lead the world in the fight against global
deforestation. But if the key drivers of deforestation aren’t addressed,
progress will remain limited.
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A contract to support private sector
involvement in the FLEGT VPA process in the Republic of Congo was signed
on January 12, 2021 between EFI (under FCDO funding) and ATIBT. With
the aim of improving the sustainable management of its forest resources,
the Republic of Congo embarked in 2008 on the negotiation of a FLEGT
Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union. The
agreement officially entered into force on 1 March 2013.
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The report flags the interlinkages
between our environmental and development challenges and describes the
roles of all parts of society in the transformations needed for a
sustainable future.
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On 28 December 2020, five park rangers
accused of raping and torturing four women in DRC’s Salonga National
Park were convicted by the Military Court in Mbandaka, following a long
battle for justice supported by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and
its local partner Actions pour la Promotion et Protection des Peuples et
Espèces Menacés (APEM).
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We use the term ‘community forestry’ as
when “communities have the right to manage the forest resources upon
which they depend, with a view to improving their living conditions.”
This definition was agreed when Fern's partners met in 2014.
Participants wanted to highlight that the term ‘community forestry’
refers to forest management by and from the point of view of
communities.
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Cambridge UK, 5th January 2021 – The
course ‘Prevention on Wildlife Trafficking’ launched by FIATA
International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations and TRAFFIC,
the wildlife trade monitoring network, is now available free of charge
in seven languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish).
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The Sahel region's Great Green Wall
Initiative received a major boost from the African Development Bank on
Monday. During a forum hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Bank pledged to assist in
mobilising up to $6.5 billion over five years, to advance the landmark
initiative.
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After more than a decade of working
toward qualifying for payments under the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions
caused by Deforestation and Forest Degradation) scheme, Indonesia
received its first results-based financial rewards last year.
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Washington, D.C. (December 16, 2020)
– Recognizing the Adaptation Fund’s tangible and effective adaptation
actions on the ground for the most vulnerable and its growing portfolio
of work, several contributor governments came forward with new pledges
to the Fund totaling nearly US$ 116 million.
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Executive Secretary of the UN
Convention to Combat Desertification Ibrahim Thiaw welcomes the
announcement that the Government of Canada is set to invest up to 55
million Canadian dollars in the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund.
The Fund supports private sector projects in developing countries that
use sustainable land management techniques to restore degraded
ecosystems and adapt to green economies.
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The ambitious Great Green Wall for the
Sahel and Sahara Initiative has received at least 14.326 billion United
States Dollars in new funding. The funding will fast track efforts to
restore degrading land, save biological diversity as well as create
green jobs and build resilience of the Sahelian people.
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"The Minister does not allocate new
forest concessions", reacts the Minister of the Environment who reminds
that the law establishing the Forest Code “provides for the procedure to
strip a concessionaire of his rights. (Articles 114 to 116).”
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Kinshasa, February 11, 2021 –
Greenpeace Africa calls on the President of the Democratic Republic of
Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, to order the immediate cancellation of four
illegal forest concession contracts signed last June 11 by the Minister
of Environment and Sustainable Development, Claude Nyamugabo. Greenpeace
Africa calls on the public prosecutor to open proceedings.
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Within the framework of the FLEGT-REDD,
FLEGT-IP and FLEGT certification projects (financed respectively by the
Fonds Français pour l'Environnement, the European Union and the PPECF),
the Syndicat des Producteurs Industriels du Bois en Côte d'Ivoire
(SPIB), the Union des Forestier et Industriels du Bois du Gabon (UFIGA)
and ATIBT have commissioned the production of short films to raise
awareness among stakeholders in the forest and timber sector on major
issues involving the private sector. |
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Millions of poor farmers living in the
world’s most climate-impacted parts of the Sahel have cause for hope
today because of their governments’ support for accelerating Africa’s
Great Green Wall (GGW), an area covering 11 countries from Senegal and
Mali in the West to Ethiopia and Djibouti in the East.
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Within the framework of the FLEGT-REDD,
FLEGT-IP and FLEGT certification projects (financed respectively by the
Fonds Français pour l'Environnement, the European Union and the PPECF),
the Syndicat des Producteurs Industriels du Bois en Côte d'Ivoire
(SPIB), the Union des Forestier et Industriels du Bois du Gabon (UFIGA)
and ATIBT have commissioned the production of short films to raise
awareness among stakeholders in the forest and timber sector on major
issues involving the private sector. |
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From 2 to 4 February 2021, the auditorium of the French Institute of
Cameroon in Yaoundé hosted the fifth edition of the "COP CHEZ NOUS"
organized by the Association Jeunesse Verte du Cameroun (AJVC) which
runs the Technical Secretariat of the Central African Youth Network for
the Sustainable Management of Forest and Wetland Ecosystems (REJEFAC).
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This publication outlines the GEF’s
response to the COVID-19 pandemic and provides a snapshot of progress
toward operational goals, and in support of enhanced fiduciary oversight
and safeguards of environmental projects....
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This position should be filled by May
2021 with a limited contract for the duration of the Volkswagen
Foundation project which is 3 years for the proposed research assistant
(PhD candidate) position. The selected candidate will benefit from a
salaried posi-tion according to the German salary TVL system (TV-L E13).
Regular working hours are average of 65 % of a full position (currently
25,87 hours per week). Please apply by 03.03.2021 via the online application portal...
Chair for Forest and Nature Conservation Policy
This
position should be filled by May 2021 with a limited contract for the duration
of the Volkswagen Foundation project which is 3 years for the proposed research
assistant (PhD candidate) position. The selected candidate will benefit from a
salaried posi-tion according to the German salary TVL system (TV-L E13).
Regular working hours are average of 65 % of a full position (currently 25,87
hours per week). Please apply by 03.03.2021 via the online application
portal...
A vacancy
announcement has been posted for the position of ITTO Executive Director,
consistent with the provisions of ITTC Decision 5(LVI), “Matters related to
Article 14 of the ITTA, 2006, regarding the recruitment, selection, and term of
the Executive Director”. The deadline for applications is 23:59 Japan Standard
Time on 15 April 2021.
Following
promptly on from the announcement in December 2020 of its funding extension,
ICAT is pleased to open the call for Expressions of Interest for countries to join
the global Initiative and increase their capacity to take effective climate
action through enhanced transparency. Interested countries are invited to
submit a formal Expression of Interest issued by an official entity (ministry
or agency) by 28 February 2021.
The ZSL
Sustainable Business programme (ZSB) works to achieve a world where business
practices protect & enhance biodiversity. ZSL is seeking a technical
specialist with experience of soft-commodity supply chains in Africa and more
broadly, expertise in tropical forestry. Closing date for applications:
Midnight (23:59) Sunday 07 March 2021.
The ZSL
Sustainable Business programme (ZSB) works to achieve a world where business
practices protect & enhance biodiversity. ZSL is seeking an individual to
lead the Sustainable Busines programme’s advisory workstream. This will include
oversight of ZSL’s consultancy services to the business sector on legal and
sustainable trade of forest-risk commodities. Closing date for applications:
Midnight (23:59) Sunday 07 March 2021.
The COP
will be responsible for oversight of the entire multi-million project, and will
be required to work with various stakeholders, including the private sector
partner/s, local authorities and beneficiaries, high level government and USAID
officials.
The grants
will be awarded and implemented in accordance with USAID and U.S. Government
regulations governing grants under contracts and VukaNow's internal grant
management policies. All applications with supporting documents should be
submitted to applications@vukanow.com on close of business 17.00 local time
(South Africa) 31 March 2021.
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