Paris, France, July 2015—Plant experts met last week in Paris to assess international efforts to implement the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) and how effective it was proving in achieving its targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)... Read more …
June 18 to 19, 2015- Yaounde, the political capital of the Republic of Cameroon, hosted the fifteenth meeting of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), entitled " Congo Basin Ecosystems: natural capital, producers of economic value and driver of green growth for the well-being of its populations." Read more...
15.5 million and 3 million euros, such were the amounts for both financial cooperation agreements signed between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Central African Forest Commission.
Read more...In a bid to foster radio communication on climate change in the Congo Basin, CIFOR has published a guide to developing and monitoring & evaluation of radio broadcasting of political science dialogue. The paper presents the steps involved: the design, production, dissemination and evaluation of a radio program on climate change and forests of the Congo Basin...
Read more...Parliamentarians and civil society organizations from the Congo Basin countries have agreed to help improve governance in the forest sector. The perfect agreement was achieved in Yaounde, at the regional workshop held from June 22 to 23, 2015, which was jointly organized by the Centre for International Development and Training (CIDT), Fern, the Forest Peoples Program (FPP) and the Plateforme Forêts et Communautés (CFP)...
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Des Elephants & des Hommes, in partnership with the NGOs IFAW France & Afrique francophone and Awely, are launching an observatory project to assess the value of elephants based on elephant-watching tourism ("EleWatch Network)". The initiative’s promoters are driven by the belief that ecotourism has a crucial role to play in elephant conservation and better coexistence with local populations, in Central Africa as well.
Read more...The Workshop on the Institutional Architecture for the Science-policy Interface (SPI) on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) convened from 19-20 June 2015, in New York, US. Meeting at the Japan Society, the event was co-organized by the Earth System Governance Project, the Post 2015 Project and Keio University, with the support of Japan’s Ministry of Environment and the Japan Science and Technology Agency. The workshop was also endorsed by Future Earth, a ten-year global research programme for sustainability, and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).
Read more...On Thursday, 25 June 2015, the Sixth Session of the Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations completed its discussion of the follow-up and review chapter of the zero draft that had begun on Wednesday, and discussed the chapter on means of implementation (MOI) and the global partnership.
Read more...The 2015 meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) under the auspices of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) concluded on Wednesday, 8 July.
Find more...Songdo, Republic of Korea, 10 July 2015 – The Board of the Green Climate Fund concluded ist tenth meeting today and agreed to review the Fund’s first project proposals at its eleventh meeting, just in time for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris.
Read more...Songdo, Republic of Korea, 9 July 2015 – The Board of the Green Climate Fund decided to accredit 13 new partner institutions on the fourth day of its tenth meeting this week, diversifying beyond the seven entities it accredited at its last meeting in March. This brings the total to 20 accredited entities (AEs).
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Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme making progress - SONGDO, 3 July 2015 – The Green Climate Fund’s developing country partners are showing keen interest in the initiatives being carried out under the Fund’s Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme, reflected in the 74 readiness requests now in hand. Of these, nine proposals have been finalized for a total of USD 2.5 million in financial support (from Comoros, the Dominican Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, the Federated States of Micronesia, Rwanda, Thailand, and Togo). Read more...
Indigenous communities are highly effective at protecting natural resources and can ‘fill the gap’ over vast regions where formal conservation authorities are absent. Yet local community practices and their significance go largely unrecognized, to the extent that many communities are forcibly removed from protected areas – and experts are calling for change. Read more...
Mozambique, 7th July 2015—Mozambique yesterday destroyed 2434.6 kg of elephant ivory and 86 pieces of rhino horn weighing a total of 193.5 kg, according to media reports.
Read more...Download the presentations from the Streams - The Thematic Sessions (Stream) of the 15th CBFP Meeting of Partners took place as part of implementation of the CBFP roadmap. The Streams helped strengthen coordination and promote information exchange, mobilization of CBFP partners, monitoring and evaluation of partners’ actions and communication around actions undertaken. It was equally observed that CBFP partners who took part in CBFP meetings were well informed and were eager to share knowledge regarding innovations, emerging results, and developments in the implementation of their programs and projects. During the 15th CBFP Meeting of Partners, a total of 6 Thematic Streams-Sessions were organized (available for download)...
Read more......Download the Final Communiqué, all the presentations, official statements and general documents related to the 15th CBFP Meeting of Partners ..
Read more...The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) are developing a new research facility, The Congo Basin Institute (CBI). It was launched during a signing ceremony on 20 June, in Yaoundé in the presence of H.E. Essimi Menye Lazare, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Cameroon, who expressed the support of the Cameroon Government for this initiative. The ceremony was chaired by Dr A. Namanga Ngongi, Vice Chair and a representative of the IITA Board of Trustees.
Read more...UCLA professor Tom Smith has conducted research in Cameroon for more than 30 years, and preserving and improving the region is more than a career to him. It’s his life’s work, and now he and a major African institute have created an international partnership that could save the Congo rainforest and transform the troubled Congo Basin.
Read more...Parliamentarians, civil society organizations (CSOs) and journalists met in a workshop in Yaounde, Cameroon from June 22 to 23, 2015 to discuss collaborative efforts for forest governance in the Congo Basin.
Read more...Ms. Hela Cheikhrouhou, the Green Fund Executive Director received in audience by His Excellency Macky Sall, President of Senegal, announced in a report broadcast on Radio Television Senegalese-RTS: the Green Climate Fund wants to help Coastal Protection...
Read more...29 Jun 2015 - Speakers: Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Post- 2015 Development Agenda, Amina Mohammed; Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, Janos Pasztor and Cardinal Peter Turkson... Find out more
The Ambassador, Head of the EU Delegation in Cameroon made the announcement on June 18 during the official opening of the 15th CBFP meeting (Congo Basin Forest Partnership). Ambassador Françoise Collet announced the resumption of the CBFP Facilitation, hitherto provided by a consortium constituting the United States of America, Germany and Norway. The decision was validated by high ranking authorities with the endorsement of Ms Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs.
Read more...On June 17, Congo Basin Facilitator based at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Matthew Cassetta and U.S. Embassy Yaounde Cultural Affairs Officer Merlyn Schultz delivered speeches to civil society members on the margins of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) meeting at the Palais de Congres in Yaounde.
Read more...Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, signed the Central Africa Regional Indicative Programme (RIP) of the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) for an amount of €350 million (229 billion CFA) for the period 2014-2020. Commissioner Neven Mimica said: "Regional integration is only viable when driven from within. It is a means to fulfil the policy objectives set out in the Cotonou Agreement, and to build on the achievements which the Economic Community of Central Africa and the Commission for Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa have already made, in economic and monetary integration, in peace and security, in infrastructure and in environment and natural resources".
Read more...Brussels, Belgium, 25th June 2015—International experts have called upon EU decision-makers to acknowledge the pivotal role of communities in supporting wildlife conservation - including the combat against wildlife crime - in their forthcoming strategies and action plans.
Read more...The twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP12) was held from 2-9 June 2015, in Punta del Este, Uruguay, under the theme “Wetlands for our Future.”
Read more...The Ministers of the Organization for the Conservation of Wildlife in Africa (OCFSA) held an extraordinary session on the sidelines of the 15th Meeting of CBFP partners, on June 17, 2015, at the Yaounde Conference Center. The gathering was convened by the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife of Cameroon, equally serving as current chairman of OCFSA.
Read more...Such was the main announcement made by the Ambassador and Head of the European Union Delegation in Cameroon, during the 15
th Meeting of Partners of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) which took place from June 15 to 19, 2015, in Yaounde, Cameroon with financial support from the governments of Norway, Cameroon, the United States, Germany, France and technical support from the IUCN.
Read more...In your best John Cleese voice: “All right… all right… but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order… what have the Romans ever done for us?”
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- o qualify for future REDD+ financial incentives, both for deforestation and forest degradation reductions, countries need to assess historical forest-cover changes and establish forest reference emission levels, i.e. CO2 emissions resulting from changes in forest cover. The establishment of a national forest definition is essential to monitor changes in forest areas and a prerequisite to develop a consistent system to monitor forest reference emission levels. Read more...
The annual mid-year climate talks in Bonn commenced with a fast-start as countries were eager to commence REDD+ negotiations as soon as possible and resolve the three outstanding issues – further safeguards guidance, non-carbon benefits (NCBs), and alternative policy approaches including joint mitigation adaptation (JMA).
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LONDON, England—There was standing room only at several of the sessions of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case event held here on June 10. As investment bankers and fund managers rubbed shoulders with agriculture and forestry researchers, representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies, there was a sense that momentum is growing to connect the flows of available capital with the needs of local communities, businesses and governments to achieve sustainable land use in developing countries. Read more...
The Forest Stewardship Council has officially recognized the National Group in charge of developing FSC Standards for Cameroon. The Working Group brings together actors in three (03) sections: economic, environmental and social. Each section has the same number of members (equal weight in representing economic, environmental and social interests). The Group equally counts a chairperson and a secretariat, as well as a committee of technical experts in forest management and certification. Read more...
It is with great pain and sadness that the Forestry and Environment Training Network of Central Africa (RIFFEAC) and its technical and financial partners have learned of the death of Dr. Ibrahim Sambo soulemane, March 31, 2015 in Yaounde, Cameroon, following a long illness. The Chairman of the Board, Mr. Jean-Claude Nguinguiri, described Dr Sambo as an irreplaceable companion who was instrumental at both during creation RIFFEAC in 2001 in Libreville, Gabon and during its growth phase (2011 to date)... Read more...
Monday, May 25, 2015, The city of N'Djamena, Republic of Chad harbored the 15th Ordinary Session of the Conference of ECCAS Heads of State and Government. The meeting was convened by His Excellency Mr. Idriss Deby Itno, President of the Republic of Chad, and current Chairman of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). Read more...
May 13 to 14, 2015: The conference room of the Serena Hotel in Bali, Douala provided the setting for the preliminary meeting to adopt the memorandum of understanding on the consensual plan to integrate large mammal migration corridors in the TRIDOM landscape, into National Land Allocation Plans.
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