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If you wish to be able to attend the 18th MoP of the CBFP and related events, please register before August 25th, 2018 by completing the form below and clicking on the button “register”. It will not be possible to attend the meeting without a properly completed registration procedure.
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The 18th Meeting of Parties of the Congo
Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) will take place on 27 and 28 November
2018 in Brussels in Belgium. Main theme: "Towards a sustainable
future for the Congo Basin forests, their inhabitants, flora and
wildlife" Registration and invitations, beginning 23 July 2018.
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The 18th Meeting of Parties of the Congo
Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) will take place on 27 and 28 November
2018 in Brussels, Belgium. Kindly download the Briefing note and Draft
agenda of the meeting…
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Belgium 16 April 2018. Ghent University,
Department of Green Chemistry and Technology and Department of
Environment officially joined the members of the Congo Basin Forests
Partnership (CBFP). As part of the accession process, Ghent University
submitted the required documents and agreed to abide by the CBFP
members’ cooperation framework in promoting sustainable management of
forest ecosystems in Central Africa.
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Congo Basin
Sustainable landscapes: around 70 persons took part in this High-Level
Roundtable moderated by Cyriaque Sendashonga, Global Director for Programme and
Policy at IUCN[1]. The discussions focused on the protection of global
important biodiversity in protected areas, the management of biodiversity out
of protected areas through large-scale landscape approaches...
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Civil society representatives from
Ghana, Liberia, Cameroon, Congo and Vietnam made the journey to Europe
to relate their experiences, successes, challenges and lessons learned
from FLEGT and VPAs (Voluntary Partnership Agreements) to curb the trade
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TIBT and
COMIFAC signed a collaboration agreement at the Racewood on June 21, in
Libreville (Gabon). On the occasion of the Racewood, a
five-year collaboration agreement between ATIBT and the Central African
Forests Commission (COMIFAC) was signed, as well as a specific protocol
for the collection and valuation of data on the forest sector and forest
concessions in Central Africa.
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Wildlife in the Western Congo Basin is
rapidly disappearing. The Western Congo Basin—WCB, defined here as
being composed of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, and the
Republic of Congo—is rapidly losing a significant proportion of its
wild animals to poaching and unsustainable hunting. This trend extends
across many species that face pressure from hunting for bushmeat and for
commercial export of valuable animal products, as well as habitat
degradation.
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TRAFFIC International and WWF jointly
organized a "Regional Awareness and Capacity Building Workshop Towards
FOCAC 2018", which took place in Nairobi, Kenya during 19-20 June 2018.
The main purpose of the workshop was to sensitize as well as build the
capacity of African countries in their preparation for and engagement in
the FOCAC 2018 Ministerial Conference and Heads of States and
Governments Summit to be held in Beijing, China in September 2018.
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Songdo, 01 Jun 2018 The Green Climate Fund has strengthened
its country-driven approach to supporting global climate action with the
conclusion today of the Empowering Direct Access workshop..
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Land
Degradation Neutrality (LDN) has been defined by the Parties to the Convention
as: A state whereby the amount and quality of land resources, necessary to
support ecosystem functions and services and enhance food security, remains
stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and
ecosystems. .
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| UN Climate Change News, 20 June 2018 - UN Climate Change Executive
Secretary Patricia Espinosa today called on oil producing countries to
make the challenging but necessary transition to renewable energy in
order to enable a low-carbon future and prevent the worst ravages of
climate change, which include ever more severe and frequent droughts,
flooding and storms caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
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| The Great Green Wall is a symbol of hope in the face of one of the
biggest challenges of our time
– desertification. Launched in 2007,
this game-changing initiative aims to restore Africa’s degraded
landscapes and in the process transform millions of lives in one of the
world’s poorest regions, the Sahel. Once complete, the Wall will be the
largest living structure on the planet – an 8000km natural wonder of the
world stretching across the entire width of the Continent.
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The United Nations Forum on Forests, concluding its thirteenth session
this afternoon, adopted an omnibus resolution regarding the activities
it will carry out to support the United Nations Strategic Plan for
Forests (2017-2030). The aim is to implement a communication and
outreach strategy, to raise public awareness of the Plan.
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UN Climate Change News, 3 July 2018 - Increased risk from vulnerability
to climate change is increasing the cost of capital and is projected to
cause an additional USD 168 billion of debt payments over the next ten
years among the most climate change vulnerable countries, according to
new research commissioned by the UN.
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| The high-level side event aims to showcase the COMIFAC member countries’
efforts to foster conservation, management and sustainable development
of forest ecosystems in Central Africa with a view to enhancing the
visibility of Central Africa’s innovative achievements in implementing
United Nations conventions on the Environment.
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UN Climate Change News, 27 June 2018 — Political leaders from all
regions are multiplying their public calls for nations to step up
immediate climate action and to conclude robust guidelines to implement
the Paris Climate Change Agreement at the next UN climate talks in
Poland in December.
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Since its entry into force in 1994, the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change has been at the centre of international
efforts to address global warming and the rising risks it represents to
people and economies across the globe. The adoption and early entry into
force of the Paris Agreement was a monumental achievement that has put
every nation on Earth on a clear pathway and with a clear destination
for delivering a safer and more secure future.
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Proposals for oral presentations, sessions and posters should explicitly
refer to at least one of the ten following selected conference
sub-themes: 1) Nature conservation policies; 2) Forest and climate
change; 3) Political economy of deforestation; 4) Forestlands and
agricultural commodities; 5) Biodiversity and market-based instruments;
6) Transnational and decentralised forest governance; 7) Development,
social equity and sustainability; 8) Forest concessions; 9) Ecotourism
and forest recreation; 10) livelihoods and Non-timber forest products.
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I am
pleased to annonce the official launch of the inception phase of the
Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWiM) project in Congo, which is funded by the
European Union and implemented by a consortium including FAO, CIRAD, CIFOR and
WCS. This project plans to develop a replicable model of sustainable community
management of hunting activities in forestry concessions.
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Da Nang, 27 Jun 2018 The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global
Environment Facility (GEF) agreed yesterday to take joint steps to
improve climate finance flows to best meet the needs of developing
countries in tackling the global climate challenge.
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Banking institutions have announced plans to set a global benchmark for
responsible and sustainable banking. Good as they may be, their
intentions are yet to be backed up with action, in the aftermath of
their general assemblies…
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From December 2017 to May 2018, Cameroonian civil society member
organizations of the Coordination of the Standardized of Independent
External Observation System (SNOIE), conducted a total of five
independent external observation missions to report alleged cases of
illegal logging in forests of the national domain and those covered by
legally assigned titles.
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June 27, 2018 – Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada. Developing countries constantly face the
destabilizing effects of climate change, with women and children facing
disproportionate challenges. Collaboration and partnerships between
governments, global institutions, non-governmental and local
organizations, as well as the private sector are key to moving forward
on climate action. Canada is committed to these efforts to empower the
most at-risk communities to better adapt and mitigate the harmful
impacts of a changing climate.
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The 11th Forest Governance Forum will be
held from 30- 31 October 2018 in Brazzaville. It is the first forum to
be held under the EU-funded CV4C project.
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It’s a first! Last Friday and Saturday
was organized by Maisons du Monde Foundation a public event around the
preservation of forests, climate and biodiversity in Nantes.
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On 21 and 22 June, the ATIBT organized
the Racewood in Libreville, as part of Gabon WoodShow, the first timber
fair in the Congo Basin. ATIBT has decided to take advantage of the
launch this year of Gabon WoodShow, Gabon’s first wood and technology
show in Gabon, to join the event and hold a new edition of the Racewood.
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The report “Total Systems Failure” shows how a global web of secrecy –
made up of tax havens and shell companies listed in Liechtenstein, Dubai
and Hong Kong – is facilitating this illegal international trade whilst
protecting three Portuguese brothers at the head of the company from
scrutiny.
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As part of the implementation of its road map, the Central African Sub-
Working Group on Protected Areas and Wildlife (SGTAPFS) held its eighth
meeting from 29 to 30 May 2018 in Douala in the Republic of Cameroon.
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Expressions
of interest may be sent by e-mail or submitted in person in five (05) copies to
the Executive Secretariat of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) no
later than 10 August 2018 at 12 noon prompt.
Expressions
of interest may be sent by e-mail or submitted in person in five (05) copies to
the Executive Secretariat of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) no
later than 10 August 2018 at 12 noon prompt.
Expressions
of interest may be sent by e-mail or submitted in person in five (05) copies to
the Executive Secretariat of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) no
later than 10 August 2018 at 12 noon prompt.
The
Executive Secretary of COMIFAC invites Consultants / Consortiums to express
their interest in providing the above-mentioned services. Interested
consultants must provide proof of relevant qualifications and experience
required to provide the services (brochures, references regarding execution of
similar contracts, experience working under comparable conditions, proof of expertise
needed to work among international and local experts, etc.). Consultants may
come together to enhance their respective skills.
FGF Brazzaville 2018 Applications. Deadline: 14th September 2018.
We are now accepting
applications for participants and contributors for the Forest Governance
Forum, Brazzaville from 30-31 October 2018. CIDT does not cover
subsistence allowances or transportation of participants to forum.
We are looking for an experienced,
bilingual (French and English) consultant to provide an assessment of EU
policies and processes including funding that support the development
and implementation of community forests.
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