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| | | | | | Douala (Cameroon) hosted the third CBFP Council Meeting on 24 October 2017
The meeting was opened by the Chairperson, M. Anders Henriksson, EU
Facilitator of the CBFP. He said he was pleased with the participation
of all college representatives on the Board. This mobilisation is clear
evidence of the continuous committment of all the partners to make CBFP
governance reform successful. |
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Stream Coach: Emmanuel Heuse. Stream Dates: Wednesday 25th / Thursday 26th of October 2017. Thematic: How to address the lack of adequate regulation of the fast
growing national and regional timber markets in the Congo Basin? Please download the Stream 1 presentations..
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Stream2: Biodiversity and wildlife. Stream Leader : AWF.Co-organisateurs / contributeurs clés: AWF, WRI, IIED, ALG, Banque mondiale, COMIFAC.
Please download the Stream 2 presentations..
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Stream 3 of CBFP: Climate Change (adaptation and mitigation):
Development of NDCs and Realities of Climate Finance in Central Africa. Please download the Stream 3 presentations..
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The pictures of the 17th Meeting of Partners (MOP)
of CBFP (Congo Basin Forest Partnership), from 24 to 27 October 2017 in
Douala, Cameroon, are available for download ... Do not forget to like and subscribe to our page ... |
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The aim of this high-level side event
which will gather the ministers of the COMIFAC member countries and
other country Parties, ECCAS and representatives of international
organizations, is to showcase the countries’ efforts in the area of
conservation, sustainable management and its contribution to the fight
against climate change...
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| | | | | | europeaid/news: Faces2Hearts - Travel far, get closerWe are looking for 4 bloggers in total (our faces) with one face to be
selected from each of 4 global regions (Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and
Latin America). Each winning face will travel and meet fascinating
people within his or her own region, except for the European blogger who
will be travelling in Eastern & Southern Africa. |
| | africa.fsc : Developing of the National FSC Forest Management Standard in Namibia
The FSC Principles and Criteria (P&C) define the general regulations
that forest operations must comply with in order to obtain FSC forest
management certification. However, any international forest management
standard must be adjusted to the specific local and regional context and
make them relevant to the diverse legal... |
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Dakar - the Board Chairman of Ténergie Senegal and former Minister,
Abdou Fall, on Thursday launched a solar energy cooperative for
households in Saint-Louis Department, according media reports.
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In this issue: Developing the National FSC Forest Management Standard in
Namibia: Sustainable labels from beginning to … why are sustainable
forest practices beneficial for businesses?... Woodlands Dairy now
displays the 100% FSC logo on its products…
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Scientists raise the alarm over recent EU climate policy proposals..Almost 200 climate, forestry and
environmental scientists, including many from Finland and Sweden, have
sent an open letter to the Council and the European Parliament to
express their...
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The decline of wildlife in Central and West African border parks has
been directly linked to Islamic terrorism in the region in media and
government discourse. Using Waza National Park in the Far North Region
of Cameroon as a case study, we show that wildlife declines in the park
long preceded the appearance of Boko Haram, the extremist group best
known for kidnapping over 200 girls in northern Nigeria.
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| | | | Since 2014, the Our Ocean conference has brought together world leaders,
civil society organizations, executives, and oceans experts with the
goal of driving concrete action to turn the tide of human-caused
deterioration of the planet’s oceans..
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| 75 farmers including 22 women have
received loans totaling 3,270,000 FCFA at a 1.5% monthly interest rate
in exchange for 606 bags of maize and groundnuts.
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| 7 October 2017. Stakeholders came together in a workshop to discuss and
prioritize action plans for preventive control of the Maize Lethal
Necrosis (MLN) in maize production, on 26 September at IITA, Ibadan.
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Policy instruments for implementing the Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation and the enhancement of forest
carbon stocks (REDD+) mechanism operate within an orchestra of policy
mixes that affect the forest and other land sectors. |
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self-assessment tool for accreditation has been put in place to define
the minimum requirements for an institution to be accredited to receive
funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
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| Bonn, Germany (October 13, 2017) — The 30th Adaptation Fund Board
meeting produced several significant decisions, including approving a
new five-year medium-term strategy that emphasizes the Fund’s pillars of
Action, Innovation and Learning.
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| At its 51st meeting in October 2016, the GEF Council requested the
Trustee, in cooperation with the Secretariat, to initiate discussions on
the seventh replenishment of resources of the GEF Trust Fund (GEF-7).
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Songdo, 24 Oct 2017 - The Green Climate
Fund will help African countries ramp up their economic growth in ways
that do not exacerbate climate change with the signing today of an
agreement with the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC).
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Who
benefits from the Adaptation Fund? What is the share of Central Africa?
The analysis of the beneficiary countries benefiting of the Adaptation
Fund presents a fairly limited share for Central Africa. It is time to
question the bottlenecks of this increased absence of the sub-region in
the mobilization of such resources. It is not late and it is still
possible to catch up through Direct Access!
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From 03 to 05 October 2017, the conference room of the Radisson Blu
Hotel in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, provided the setting for the
Extraordinary Conference of Ministers of Environment and Finance of
ECCAS and the East African Community on accelerating the
operationnalisation of the Congo Basin Commission..
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The COMIFAC Annual Report 2016 is available for download: COMIFAC: New
team, one goal-Our achievements in 2016: COMIFAC priority interventions:
The Partnership’s supporters- 2016 Financial review- COMIFAC management
and staff .
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Songdo, 18 Oct 2017 - The Green Climate Fund has transferred the first
tranche of climate finance under the Egypt Renewable Energy Financing
Framework. The project, undertaken with GCF partner EBRD, the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, will support Egypt’s
Sustainable Energy Strategy, financing investments in
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The deadline for submitting proposals is January 15th.
The designated national authorities (focal points) of adaptation funds
that are called upon to work in synergy with national implementation
entities identified in the preparation of such proposals ....
We are looking for 4 bloggers in total
(our faces) with one face to be selected from each of 4 global regions
(Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America). Each winning face will
travel and meet fascinating people within his or her own region, except
for the European blogger who will be travelling in Eastern &
Southern Africa.
Read more …
The Wildlife Conservation Society is
looking to fill a Marine Technical Advisor position. She/He will support
a team of government and other NGO partners in the design, evaluation
and implementation of a marine spatial plan. The Marine Technical
Advisor will coordinate and support the design of a national fisheries
strategy, as well as a national plan of action to address illegal
unreported and unregulated fishing with the Direction of Fisheries.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
is looking to fill a Technical Advisor Biodiversity Action Planning
Central Africa position. She/He will lead on-site field operations and
will oversee the implementation of the key Biodiversity Action Plan
(BAP) components which include the improvement of the biodiversity
baseline, the assessment of direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity
and the identification of relevant and feasible mitigation measures to
address these impacts.
The Civil Society Environment Fund 2 is
looking to fill a Fundraising Consultant position. She/He will develop a
solid understanding of the current fundraising capacity of the Kasanka
Trust Limited (KTL), including its two sister trusts (UK and
Netherlands), analyze the current strategic angles and approaches used
by KTL to raise funds as well as review the conservation financing
landscape available to KTL.
Read more …
The World Wildlife Fund is looking to
fill a Law Enforcement Advisor position. She/He will assist the Park
Manager and park staffs implement a law enforcement strategy for
protecting and managing this large conservation initiative in the
Salonga National Park and surrounding landscape.
SAS is
currently accepting papers and posters for its 2018 Discovery Summit Europe. We
are looking for presenters who can share how they have solved important
problems with JMP. Each year our paper and poster presenters are a source of
inspiration for the Discovery Summit Europe - posing and challenging analytic
theories, benchmarking best practices and conceiving innovative concepts.
Presenters will shape the conference conversation about how to apply analytics
in forward-looking companies around the globe.
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