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August 20, 2020 - At the invitation of
His Excellency Mr. Jules Doret NDONGO, Minister of Forestry and Wildlife
of Cameroon, current President of the Central African Forest Commission
(COMIFAC), the CBFP Facilitator of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Honorable Dr. Christian Ruck, on behalf of all CBFP member partners,
delivered a speech during the protocol segment of the extraordinary
meeting of the Council of Ministers in charge of Forests and/or
Environment of the COMIFAC member countries.
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At the invitation of Mr. Jules Doret NDONGO, Cameroon Minister of
Forestry and Wildlife, current President of the Council of Ministers in
charge of Forestry and/or Environment of COMIFAC member countries was
held on 20 August 2020 by videoconference.
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The Global Center on Adaptation today
announced the launch of its regional office in Côte d’Ivoire. Hosted by
the African Development Bank at its headquarters in the Ivorian capital
Abidjan, GCA Africa will work with partners across the continent to
scale and accelerate adaptation action that protects African communities
from the impacts of climate change.
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18 September 2020 - By Videoconference - The CEMAC meeting of
Ministers in charge of Forestry, Industry and Environment of Central
Africa adopts several decisions with a major impact on the development
of the forestry and timber sector in Central Africa.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Cameroon has
backtracked on a decision to allow industrial logging in one of the
region’s least exploited rainforests, home to rare gorillas,
tool-wielding chimpanzees and giant frogs. |
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Following a negotiation process which
was begun at the G7 Biarritz summit, then at the United Nations General
Assembly, and spearheaded by our country, France and its partners,
countries in the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin and South-East Asia, and
European donor countries agreed on the text of a Charter establishing
the Alliance for Rainforests.
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Working within the General Secretariat
of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) since 2009,
Dr. Honoré TABUNA is from Congo Brazzaville. He holds a Doctoral Thesis
in Botanical Economies from the National Museum of Natural History in
Paris and the Chair of Business Management from the National lnstitute
of Agronomie Research in Montpellier...
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At the invitation of His Excellency Ali
BONGO ONDIMBA, President of the Gabonese Republic, current President of
the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Economic
Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the XVllth Ordinary Session of the Conference of Heads of State and Government was held on 30 July, 2020 by videoconference
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Top 10 Lenders & Underwriters
(2016-2020 April): See the 10 banks and investors with the highest
financial exposure in loans and underwriting to forest-risk sector
companies in Southeast Asia, Central and West Africa and Brazil. These
findings are based on research carried out by forestsandfinance.org
using this methodology to identify corporate loans, credit and
underwriting facilities provided to the selected companies.
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I have been following with keen
interest the ongoing debate on Ebo Forest. It represents the struggle of
a country trying to balance developmental aspirations with ecological
and cultural identity. |
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One hundred twenty-eight environmental
and human rights NGOs and experts today warn that a United Nations drive
to increase global protected areas such as national parks could lead to
severe human rights violations and cause irreversible social harm for
some of the world’s poorest people.
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Read: BIOPAMA signs a financing
contract with the Observatory in West Africa; World Natural Heritage
Report in Africa. The new IUCN report "World Natural Heritage in Africa -
Progress and Prospects" is available in English and french...
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A roadmap to develop national energy
policy and clean cooking marks the launch of a key reform for the
partnership between CAFI and the DRC. The people of the DRC heavily rely
on wood energy as cooking energy.
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The Congo Basin Climate Commission
(CBCC) is launching a Call for Expression of Interest (CEI) for the
selection of a Development Bank in charge of opening and managing a
"Blue Fund for the Congo Basin" financing line. |
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I have been following with keen
interest the ongoing debate on Ebo Forest. It represents the struggle of
a country trying to balance developmental aspirations with ecological
and cultural identity.
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"The consequences of the pandemic could
be long-lasting", stated Ambassador Smail Chergui, African Union
Commissioner for Peace and Security, adding that "the AU will continue
to support governments to make extremely difficult choices to address
the impact of COVID-19 across the continent".
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To read: Wildlife- We observed an
unusual inter-group interaction between the Makumba and Mata habituated
gorilla groups in Bai Hokou during which Mio, a young male from the Mata
group spent all the time playing with Inguka, one of the twins in the
Makumba group.
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The study expands the scope of
reporting for the first time to all countries with multilateral
development bank operations. It now provides data on MDB climate finance
commitments beyond those directed solely at developing and emerging
economies, but with the focus remaining on low- and middle-income
countries.
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To read: WFC 2021 in Seoul : Building a
green, healthy and resilient future with forests; Gabon : Inauguration
of the new Precious Woods CEB factory by Minister Lee White; Important
update - Study Overview of the private sector in the Republic of Congo…
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While the coronavirus pandemic presents
enormous health and economic challenges, there are also opportunities
to jumpstart economies and rebuild societies through green recovery
plans that are aligned with the 2030 Agenda.
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In view of the sanitary situation
associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, France and the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have decided to postpone the
IUCN World Conservation Congress, which was to be held in January 2021
in Marseille. New dates for the event will be announced in due course.
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Top 10 Lenders & Underwriters
(2016-2020 April): See the 10 banks and investors with the highest
financial exposure in loans and underwriting to forest-risk sector
companies in Southeast Asia, Central and West Africa and Brazil. These
findings are based on research carried out by forestsandfinance.org
using this methodology to identify corporate loans, credit and
underwriting facilities provided to the selected companies.
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We are extremely proud and happy with
our achievements this month. After more than 10 months of hard work at
the Limbe Wildlife Centre, we have made a great step to further bridge
the gap between animal welfare and conservation actions by inaugurating
the first soft-release of endangered African grey parrot in Cameroon’s
history.
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Following virtual meetings in July
2020, the Group of 20 (G20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors
issued a communiqué that acknowledges global economic activity is
expected to contract sharply in 2020 due to the impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic...
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To read: ATIBT welcomes RIFFEAC !;
Deforestation is a political choice, but not a goal; PARTNERSHIP MFLS
FOREZIENNE AND ISELI; ATIBT is relaying two EU public consultations
including one on the EUTR. You can answer until November 26, 2020…
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My fellow Africans! I am pleased to
issue this press briefing at the launch of the Inaugural Africa Report
on Disaster Risk Reduction. As you might be aware, disasters have become
a recurrent phenomenon in Africa and the Africa Union wants to ensure
that countries prepared to minimize...
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Increased efforts are required to
prevent further losses to terrestrial biodiversity and the ecosystem
services that it provides1,2. Ambitious targets have been proposed, such
as reversing the declining trends in biodiversity3; however, just
feeding the growing human population will make this a challenge4.
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The UNCCD Executive Secretary Mr.
Ibrahim Thiaw held a virtual meeting with the Minister of Environment
and Natural Resources of Nicaragua Ms. Sumaya Castillo, the Executive
Secretary of the Central American Commission for Environment and
Development (CCAD) Mr. Salvador Nieto, and the special envoy for LAC,
Mr. Edgar Gutierrez, to discuss a future cooperation cooperation
agreement and review land restoration activities in the region.
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We planted about 8,000 trees within a
20ha area in an effort to restore degraded forest within the
agricultural zone in DSPA. Funding for this restoration project was
provided by the Peter and Luise Hager Foundation (Peter und Luise Hager-
Stiftung) through WWF Germany. We also maintained previously planted
trees.
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Bonn, Germany/Laxenburg Austria – UNCCD
and the International institute of applied systems analysis (IIASA)
signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on 30 September 2020 to
promote the application of integrated system analyses in support of
science, technology and UNCCD implementation. This MoU builds on shared
priorities and strategic vision of both institutions to advance
transformational changes that help achieve sustainable development
goals, in particularly SDG15.3 on Land degradation Neutrality.
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Within the framework of the realization
of its projects, the ATIBT and its partners present you a directory
guide to accompany the forest companies in the assembly of plantation
project.
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A High-level Roundtable on Climate
Action, convened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, showcased
high-impact climate solutions and targets by governments, the finance
sector, and civil society.
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Around 40 kilometers south-west of the
Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, native and exotic trees stand side by
side on 8 hectares of the Suba Forest. Surrounded by tall junipers and
idyllic mountains, this group of seed orchards is just one of many that
serve as incubators for the country’s impressive landscape restoration
efforts.
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From action on climate, biodiversity,
health, gender equality and more, world leaders, academics, young
activists and others turned their attention to the United Nations in
September with the need to work together for a sustainable future a
common refrain.
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5 October 2020, Rome – FAO has launched
a new publication highlighting the major achievements of the FAO
Forestry Programme in helping improve lives and livelihoods while making
forestry more productive and sustainable.
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The first UN Biodiversity Summit
highlighted the urgency of action at the highest levels in support of a
post-2020 global biodiversity framework that contributes to the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development and places the global community on a
path towards “living in harmony with nature” – the 2050 Vision for
Biodiversity.
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The choice is simple: accept
devastating wildfires, extreme weather, species loss, and disease
outbreaks or secure a sustainable future at a fraction of the cost.
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The aim of new guidelines published by
ITTO on 5 October 2020 is to help stakeholders—from policymakers to
foresters and farmers—in restoring degraded landscapes, thereby
providing vital goods and ecosystem services and creating sustainable
rural livelihoods and employment.
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5 October 2020, Rome - Transformational
change is needed in the way we manage our forests and their
biodiversity, produce and consume our foods and interact with nature, if
we want to build back better after the COVID-19 pandemic and achieve
the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the key message of a speech
delivered today by FAO Director-General QU Dongyu at the 25th session of
the Committee on Forestry (COFO).
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Our forest elephant dung-based
distance-sampling survey of the 5,260 km2 World Heritage Dja Faunal
Reserve (DFR) in Cameroon systematically covered 298.2 km of line
transects with a further 1,681.4 km covered as recces. The population
estimates of 0.042 individuals/km2 (CV: 19.4%; 95% CI: 0.029–0.061) and
219 individuals (95% CI: 150–319) confirmed a significant decline over
recent years. |
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...A possible pathway to overcome this
barrier involves eliciting mental models behind policy decisions to
allow better representation of human agency, changing perspectives to
better understand divergent points of view, and refining strategies
through explicit theories of change. Games can help decision makers in
all of these tasks.
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Read: FLEGT-IP and FLEGT-REDD Project
Workshop SPIB - ATIBT "Traceability and Forest Certification of Wood";
ATIBT welcomes its new member Francisco Mourao; FSC Publishes The
Revised National Forest Stewardship Standard of Cameroon.
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To read: Calling all employees of UN Global Compact companies; UN
steps up for seafarers as global supply chain slows; Thailand plans 998
sustainability projects by 2030...
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Guterres and other speakers at the
Summit, held in a socially distanced UN Headquarters with Heads of State
and Government and Ministers joining virtually, expressed concern that
none of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets will be met by the 2020 deadline.
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“When different players – be they an
individual, organization, business or government – take action bound by a
common cause, we are all energized, and our vision is brought that much
closer to reality.”
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This book addresses this gap and also
highlights how there are significant, demonstrable differences in
masculinities from forest to forest.
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France, Germany and UK among more than
60 countries promising to put wildlife and climate at heart of
post-Covid recovery plans. World leaders have pledged to clamp down on
pollution, embrace sustainable economic systems and eliminate the
dumping of plastic waste in oceans by the middle of the century as part
of “meaningful action” to halt the destruction of nature on Earth.
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In the lead-up to 2020, the year was
being hailed as the “super year for nature” by the global science
community. At last, biodiversity would be pushed to the top of policy
agendas by a relay of major summits, conventions and new initiatives
focused on the saving the planet’s declining variety of life.
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The Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD) Special Virtual Sessions convened on Wednesday, 16 September, from
7:00-9:00 am EDT (UTC-4:00). These virtual sessions of the CBD’s
Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
(SBSTTA) and Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI) provide the
opportunity for the presentation of information and for statements by
parties and observers.
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" Welcome to our sixth report. These
are challenging times. Many people are more or less forced to work from
home and most meetings are online. We do our best to ensure that the
current projects continue as much as possible..."
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Despite the tremendous strains and
related fallout from the global pandemic, private sector investors
particularly those in advanced economies have ramped up their
commitments this year to help contain and adapt to the effects of
climate change.
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The head of the Green Climate Fund
(GCF) on Thursday called for a global Green New Deal in which redirected
financial flows usher in an age of sustainable, post-pandemic growth
that takes the heat out of dangerous planetary warming.
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has
achieved a milestone in its mission to progress climate action in
developing countries with pledges to GCF’s first replenishment now
reaching over USD 10 billion.
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A high-profile group of heads of
states, government ministers and UN representatives called today for
global solidarity to scale up action to address the devastating impacts
of climate change in developing countries amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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Intensive training for young scientists
demonstrates key angle of capacity development and value of investments
for longer term returns. For a group of students in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, university learning took on a whole new dimension
when they were selected to participate in an innovative capacity
development program involving the University of Kisangani (UNIKIS),
Forests and Climate Change in the Congo (FCCC) and supported by
scientists from CIFOR, ICRAF, CIRAD...
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Two congolese Ministers share their vision on NDCs and partnerships
with CAFI. “In difficult times, we need to explicitly stress the
importance of land-use and sustainable forest management as primary
solutions to control disease outbreaks and fight the climate crisis”.
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The Strategy -Halting the dramatic loss
of biodiversity requires a bold new approach for protected areas in
terms of scope, structure, accountability and financing. As an
instrument to serve this strategy we introduce the Legacy Landscapes
Fund.
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A new UN drive to increase global
protected areas could lead to severe human rights violations and cause
irreversible social harm if not backed by much stronger guarantees of
the rights of indigenous people and other local communities, the
Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) warns today. |
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CIF and CSIS recently held a second
workshop to discuss just transitions—an approach that seeks to ensure
workers and communities are both protected and benefit from the deep and
rapid changes to come in the transition to a new climate economy.
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"For our DRC office, we are looking for a dynamic and committed
Program Coordinator, Human Rights who will contribute to the growth of our
program (financed by the German Ministry for Development Cooperation, BMZ) in
Democratic Republic of Congo and Central Africa" . Deadline for
applications: 21 November 2020.
Under the supervision of the Regional Biomonitoring Coordinator, and in
close collaboration with the Congo Basin Biomonitoring Officer, the national
teams and field projects, the Congo Basin Biomonitoring Intern will mainly
focus on SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) approach data
compilation and reporting at regional level. Deadline for applications: 20th
November 2020.
This
position provides support to the management of the Central Africa project
portfolio to ensure that project implementing teams operate effectively, on
time and according to donor requirements. The Assistant Officer -
Administrative and Project Support will work closely with Project Managers,
Finance, the Global Project Support Unit in Cambridge, and wider project
implementation teams. He/She is a key internal contact point for implementation
and reporting issues. Closing date: 22 November 2020.
The Congo
Basin Climate Commission (CBCC) is launching a Call for Expression of Interest
(CEI) for the selection of a Development Bank in charge of opening and managing
a "Blue Fund for the Congo Basin" financing line. Complete Expression
of Interest files should be sent later than January 04, 2021 at 3 p.m.,
Brazzaville time.
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