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Having just completed the 12th meeting
of the Governing Council of the CBFP, we would like to thank you once
again for the warm reception you gave the Franco-Gabonese
Co-Facilitation, which was set up in July 2023. Six months after the
start of our Co-Facilitation, we have spoken out on behalf of the Congo
Basin at international meetings including...
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Born in the Republic of Congo in 1967,
Aurélie Flore Koumba Pambo was raised in a family of diplomats, which
enabled her to live in several countries (Netherlands, France, Congo,
Rwanda, Niger, Cameroon, Senegal and Mali), exposing her to different
cultures. She is fluent in French, English and Lingala, and has a basic
knowledge of German.
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The 2023 World Forum on Legal and
Sustainable Timber, organised by the International Tropical Timber
Organization (ITTO), was held in Macau, China, from 21 to 22 November
2023. Under the theme "Connect, cooperate and share to promote the
recovery of the global tropical timber market", the aim of the Forum was
to intensify networking, collaboration and business-to-business
exchanges between stakeholders in the forestry and timber sector, i.e.
producers, buyers, the processing industry and market players, with a
view to promoting sustainable forest management.
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At COP26 in Glasgow (2021), twelve donors committed to a collective pledge for the Congo Basin of at least USD 1.5 billion in funding between 2021 and 2025. During 2021, donors collectively disbursed more than USD 508 million to contribute to the collective funding pledge for the Congo Basin, with just under USD 311 million disbursed in the region to date. The report provides details of collective spending, as well as case studies....
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A high-level political dialogue between
ministers of donor countries of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership
(CBFP) and ministers of Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC)
member countries took place in Dubai, December 4, 2023.This high-level
political dialogue aimed to speed up the implementation of the
commitments of the COMIFAC 2021 Declaration “Declaration of Commitment
of COMIFAC Member States for the Forests of Central Africa and the Call
for Equitable Financing” and the COP26 joint Declaration by, Congo Basin
donors “Supporting the protection and sustainable management of the
Congo Basin forests.”
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On 8 December, the French-Gabonese
Co-Facilitation of the CBFP, in close collaboration with ECCAS, GIZ and
CAFI, organised a high-level Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on the CBFP in
Dubai.The high-level dialogue was chaired by Ambassador Christophe
Guilhou, Co-Facilitator of the CBFP for the French Republic, Director of
Sustainable Development, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs,
France, and Ambassador Aurélie Flore Koumba Pambo, Co-Facilitator of the
CBFP for the Republic of Gabon, Gabon's Ambassador for Climate,
Sustainable Development and the Environment.
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Dubai, 6 December 2023 - The CBFP
Franco-Gabonese Co-Facilitation organised a high-level side event on the
theme: "Meeting between the Sahel and Northern Equatorial Africa - The
stakes for the survival of protected areas and human lives - The need to
shape the framework for cross-border collaboration, to guide regional
transhumance trends by taking better account of the issues of security,
peace, migration, wildlife management and the increasing degradation of
ecosystems as a result of climate change: The N'Djamena Declaration".
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December 12, 2023, was officially the
last day of the COP28. Delegation heads for 13 days worked to avoid
fights around the COP28 different daily topics by finding middle grounds
to advance works. Despite the absence of forests in discussions during
the COP28, strides were made climaxed with a historic agreement for “a
transition away from fossil fuels” which today represents about two
thirds of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. This agreement equally
aims to speed up moves towards net zero CO2 emissions by 2050.
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The United Nations Climate Change
Conference (COP28) closed today with an agreement that signals the
“beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a
swift, just and equitable transition, underpinned by deep emissions
cuts and increased funding.
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National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and
the role of youth in agriculture were the topics of the last two side
events covered by the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
during the UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 28) in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates (UAE). Both events took place on 11 December.
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In the final stretch of the COP28
negotiations, Colombia's Minister of Environment Susana Muhamad, Kenya's
special climate envoy Ali Mohamed and French Minister for Energy
Transition Agnes Pannier-Runacher, will announce the launch of the
expert review on debt, climate and nature.
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Yaoundé, December 16, 2023. The 12th
meeting of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) Governing Council
will be held on Monday, December 18, 2023, at 2 P.M.-4:30 P.M.(Paris
time) by videoconference. This meeting gathering CBFP's seven (7)
colleges a few days to the end of the COP28‘s sessions aims at;
reviewing the implementation of recommendations made during CBFP’s last
Governing Council, presenting operational activities for the 2023-2025
roadmap of the Franco-Gabonese Co-facilitation and the CBFP governance
reinforcement project.
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COMIFAC, the GIZ Regional Support
Project for COMIFAC, the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) France –
Gabon Facilitation, the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), the EU
Funded Support Project to the Central African Forests Observatory
(RIOFAC and The Sangha Tri-National Trust Fund (FTNS)hereby launch a
call for proposals to host side events lasting no more than 60 minutes
under the « COMIFAC – Central Africa Initiatives », at the COP28 venue
from 30th November to 12th December 2023. Applications should be
submitted before 31 October 2023.
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DUBAI (Dec. 9, 2023) – Today, at COP28
in Dubai, the Government of France and Conservation International, with
support from The Rob Walton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation, announced intentions for a EUR 115 million Seed Fund to
kickstart natural-climate solutions as part of a new effort to promote
investment in the protection of nature, an underfunded climate solution.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 2
December 2023 – CGIAR, the world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural
research network, has secured more than USD 890 million to accelerate
progress against the ongoing global food and climate crises. With this
funding, CGIAR will expand its work supporting smallholder farmers in
low- and middle-income countries to shape more resilient, sustainable,
and equitable food systems, reduce emissions from farming, and boost
access to nutritious, healthy diets.
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The aim of the Global Legal and
Sustainable Timber Forum is to increase networking, collaboration and
business exchange among timber industry stakeholders—producers, buyers,
processors and market players—with a view to promoting sustainable
forest management, creating legal and sustainable wood product supply
chains, facilitating the legal and sustainable use and trade of wood
products in a stable, transparent and predictable business environment,
and contributing to sustainable development and climate-change
mitigation.
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The Multi-stakeholder Dialogue of the
Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) between representatives of donor
countries, civil society, the private sector, INGOs and multilaterals in
dialogue with representatives of Central African countries will take
place on Friday 8 December 2023, 14:00-15:30 at the COMIFAC Initiatives
Pavilion, Blue Zone. Theme of the event:“The Central African Forests,
vital global biodiversity and carbon reserves: a major challenge for
domestic and international mobilisation”.
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On Tuesday 28 November, the launch
event for the research programme on biodiversity certificates supported
by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), the Fondation pour
la recherche sur la biodiversité and Carbone 4 was held.
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The last meeting of the Carbon and
Biodiversity Commission was held by videoconference on 9 November,
gathering around forty participants. Two major topics were discussed:
the Three Basins Summit and new carbon opportunities for foresters.
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On Monday 4 December, the ATIBT and its
members organised an event at the COMIFAC/PFBC Pavilion on the theme of
"Sustainable management of tropical forests through the prism of carbon
and green finance: towards a new paradigm". The meeting, moderated by
Pierre Schueller, was attended by Prosper Dodiko, Burundi's Minister of
the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock and current Chairman of the
COMIFAC Council of Ministers, and Dr Aurélie Flore Koumba Pambo, the
CBFP's new co-facilitator for Gabon.
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In a declaration issued at the end of
the Summit of the world's three great basins of the Amazon, the Congo
and Borneo-Mekong on Saturday 28 October 2023 in Brazzaville, the Heads
of State and Government undertook, among other things, to: to strengthen
cooperation between the three basins, which are home to 80% of the
world's tropical forests and two-thirds of terrestrial biodiversity; to
recognise the unity of enhanced cooperation between the three basins; to
recognise the sovereign management of biodiversity, forests and
associated resources by the countries that make up the three basins; to
pool and capitalise on the knowledge, experience, resources and
achievements existing in each of the basins; and to introduce a
sustainable system of remuneration for the ecosystem services provided
by the three basins".
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Wednesday 25 October 2023, 7pm, French
Embassy, Brazzaville (By invitation only) Signing ceremony for a CBFP
grant agreement to the UNDP for the organisation of the Summit of the
Three Basins... Thursday 26 October 2023, 03:30PM – 04:30PM, Room 3
Kintele Conference Centre, Republic of Congo. Official launch activities
of the French and Gabonese Republics Co-Facilitation of the Congo Basin
Forest Partnership (CBFP)...
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GDA,
CIFOR-ICRAF, and the University of Yaoundé 1 are launching the recruitment for
the post of a young post-doctoral researcher to carry out research on "the
issue of elite capture and conversion of forest land". The researcher will
be recruited for 24 months to work on the research theme entitled ‘’Political
economy of the grabbing and conversion of forest lands by elites in the Congo
Basin : Parallel study of the cases of Cameroon and Gabon’’. The deadline for
receipt of applications is 19 January 2024.
The African
Development Bank Group has announced a call for proposals under Climate Action
Window (CAW) for the Adaptation Sub-Window. African Development Fund Climate
Action Window (CAW) Adaptation Sub-windowProjects to be financed by the first
CFPs of the Adaptation Sub-Window of the CAW must be Paris aligned, that is
support the goal of the Paris agreement on climate mitigation and adaptation
and building climate resilience. Deadline: 2nd February, 2024
Management
and Engineering Technologies International Inc., in support of the U.S. Forest
Service International Programs (hereinafter “USFS-IP”) may seek the services of
a Program Coordinator in Gabon to work with national governments as well as
local, national and regional organizations in the Congo Basin region to provide
technical assistance on sustainable landscape management, natural resource
management, countering illegal logging, and climate change mitigation and
adaptation. Apply with a resume and letter of interest by December 31st.
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