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The Kingdom of Belgium Facilitation of the Congo Basin Forest
Partnership (CBFP) is pleased to announce the Seventh CBFP Council
Meeting scheduled for 19 December 2019 in Douala, Cameroon.
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From 21 to 25 November 2019 in Shanghai, China), Minister of State and CBFP Facilitator, Francois-Xavier de Donnea, took
part in the International Forum on Green Supply Chains for forest
products industry, entitled : “Together towards Global Green Supply
Chains - A Forest Products Industry Initiative”
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Brussels, Belgium, 30th September 2019:
Woodbois Ltd. has officially joined the Congo Basin Forest Partnership
(CBFP). As part of the application process, Woodbois has 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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Saturday, 2 November 2019, End and
closing of the preparatory workshop of the 18 December Civil Society Day
held within the framework of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP).
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It all began in December 2016 in Douala,
Cameroon with the 1st Meeting of Country Experts in Cameroon, the CAR
and Chad on the Development of Specific Protocols (SP) relating to the
BSB Bi-national and Tripartite agreements on the fight against
transboundary poaching, notably the Specific Anti-poaching Protocol
relating to the N’Djamena Tripartite Agreement between Cameroon, the CAR
and Chad and the Specific Eco-development Protocol relating to the
Bi-national Cooperation Agreement between Cameroon and Chad.
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The Tokyo International Conference on
development in Africa (TICAD) is an international meeting hosted by the
Japanese government and jointly sponsored by the United Nations, the
United Nations Development Program, the African Union Commission and the
World Bank.
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Shanghai, Republic of China, 21-25
October 2019- More than three hundred and fifty delegates including
about sixty members of the International Technical Tropical Timber
Association (ITTTA), sixty conference speakers and panelists took part
in the 21st ITTTA forum. COMIFAC was represented at the gathering by Mr.
Georges Moucharou, 2nd Technical Adviser at the Ministry of Forestry
and Wildlife and representative of the Acting President, Raymond Ndomba
Ngoye, Executive Secretary and Mr. Valery Tchuante, a monitoring and
evaluation expert.
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The preparatory sub-regional workshop in view of upcoming events under
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took
place from 28 to 29 October 2019 in Douala, Cameroon.
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30 September to 1st October 2019, Douala Cameroon-: Sub-regional
experience-sharing forum on ABS held between COMIFAC researchers and the
Japanese private sector. |
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From 8 to 10 October, the Chamber of Agriculture in Yaounde hosted a
sub-regional training workshop for youths and women leaders in view of
COP 25, entitled “Time for action-Gender and Climate Finance”.
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Consumer markets are increasingly demanding proof of timber legality,
but Congo Basin countries still lack sufficient qualified people to put
sustainability and legality measures in place, according to Claude
Kachaka Sudi, Regional Coordinator of the Network of Central African
Forestry and Environmental Training Institutions (RIFFEAC). |
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The study shows that Central African
forests received $2 billion from bilateral (52.5 percent) and
multilateral (47.5 percent) sources, with Germany accounting for 25
percent of funding, followed by the European Union and the Global
Environment Fund (GEF). Most funds went to Democratic Republic of Congo
(40 percent), Chad (17 percent) and Cameroon (14 percent). |
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Reducing disaster risk is a global challenge. Which is why the
international community instituted the International Day for Risk
Reduction, celebrated every 13 October. In the Congo, the government,
through Ms. Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Minister of Tourism and Environment
made a statement to mark the Day.
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UNITED NATIONS, 16 October 2019 – The UN announced today that 30
influential leaders from the corporate world will work together over the
next two years in a bid to free up trillions of dollars from the
private sector to finance the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The African forest policies and Politics (AFORPOLIS) organisation,
TROPENBOS International (TBI) and TROPENBOS Ghana (TBG) are organising
the second social sciences conference on “African forest-related
policies and politics” (AFORPOLIS conference 2020).
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Yaoundé-Cameroon, 08-10 October 2019- The Cameroon Minister of Forestry
and Wildlife, also serving as Acting President of COMIFAC on 10 October
received the young leaders of the Congo Basin forests gathered in
Yaoundé within the framework of the 3rd edition of COP Chez Nous.
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Achieving
Zero Hunger is not only about feeding people, but also ensuring proper
nutrition and nurturing the planet. This year, World Food Day calls for action
across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible
to everyone. At the same time, it calls on everyone to start thinking more
carefully about what we eat.
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From
5 to 6 November 2019, the GSAC Alliance (Alliance for the Conservation of Great
Apes in Central Africa) will be holding a strategic workshop in Pointe-Noire
(Republic of Congo) which will discuss and develop a strategic plan for the
next 3 years with the technical facilitation of the NGO Wellgrounded.
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A validation workshop on the ABS procedure manual, and the
communications strategy and action plan on the implementation of the
Nagoya Protocol on ABS was held from 8 to 10 October 2019 in Brazzaville
(Congo).
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Tensions have been rising for over a month now between forest
communities in the Tsopo region and Canadian-owned Plantations et
Huileries du Congo SA (PHC), a subsidiary of Feronia Inc.
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The BMU is launching a new programme supporting local climate and nature
conservation projects in developing countries and emerging economies.
The programme is specially tailored to small projects. The Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) is launching a new programme
supporting local climate and nature conservation projects in developing
countries and emerging economies.
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San José, Costa Rica, 10 October 2019 - After three days of panels,
high-level discussions and exchanging best practices for climate action,
PreCOP25 in San José concluded today with calls for more climate
ambition.
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Following yesterday’s announcement, the Government of Chile, as incoming
Presidency, has informed me that they received a generous offer of
support from the Government of Spain to hold the United Nations Climate
Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid on the same dates as originally
planned.
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On September 21 will be celebrated the International Day of
Bibliodiversity. Since 2010, each year, some actions are organized in
Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia, to promote independent publishing
and bibliodiversity : bookcrossing, meetings, book picnics, posters.
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Uncovering
the hidden value of biodiversity. Investing in nature took center stage during
the World Bank Group Annual Meetings, where GEF CEO and Chairperson Naoko Ishii
joined an eminent panel to discuss ways to protect and encourage an integrated
approach to economic planning and biodiversity conservation.
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The deadline for submitting comments is 31 October (to allow time to
include them in the version to be submitted to the participants of the
validation workshop slated for 26 and 27 November in Libreville)
Contacts: Valerie Tchuante (tvtchuante@comifac.org ) and Jean Claude
Nguinguiri (JeanClaude.Nguinguiri@fao.org)..
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Songdo, 11 Oct 2019 The Green Climate Fund recently explored how to
break through market barriers and forge new climate finance pathways in
developing countries by tapping the experiences of some of the world’s
top financial firms.
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After two very successful Business of Conservation Conferences, we are happy to announce that the next Business
of Conservation Conference will take place from September 1st to 3rd,
2020 at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda. Register
here to secure your slot! It will be more powerful and action-oriented
than ever as we delve even deeper into newer dimensions of environmental
investing aimed at catalyzing economic development in Africa.
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27 Sub-Saharan African countries have pledged to restore, or begin the
process of restoring, over 96 million hectares of degraded land on the
continent by 2030. 40 SSA countries include climate change mitigation
from Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry in their (intended)
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for the Paris Climate Accord.
34 NDCs include mitigation contributions from agriculture. Every
African nation has signed on to the Sustainable Development Goals. The
question now asked regularly: how will our countries keep these
commitments?
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Due to the growing realisation that deforestation affects us all, five
years ago a coalition of governments, businesses, civil society
organisations and Indigenous Peoples’ groups made a historic pledge to
halve deforestation by 2020.
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Cameroon, thanks to its variety of habitats, is blessed with an
impressive biodiversity. Birds are no exception and close to 1,000
species are known to occur in Cameroon.
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EU imports of tropical sawn wood increased 12% to 405,600 MT in the
first half of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018. Import value
increased 7% to €388.4 million...Imports from Cameroon, particularly
slow in the first half of last year, increased 20% to 141,000 MT during
the first six months of 2019. Imports also increased sharply from
several other countries including Brazil (up 47% to 77,600 MT), Gabon
(up 20% to 58,600 MT), Congo (up 38% to 30,200 MT), Ghana (up 17% to
8,800 MT) and DRC (up 32% to 7,300 MT). These gains offset a 29% decline
in imports from Malaysia, to 40,900 MT, and a 4% decline from Côte
d'Ivoire, 14,200 MT.
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Douala, Cameroon, 30 September- 1st
October 2019 “The sub-regional Convergence Plan projects a 25% increase
in absolute terms in the forestry-environment sector’s contribution to
the GDP of the COMIFAC countries by 2025” said Mr. Ludovic ITSOUA
MADZOUS, Deputy Executive Secretary of COMIFAC, as he welcomed the
holding of the first meeting between a developed country and researchers
of the Central African countries. |
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NEW YORK, September 26, 2019 - Citing an urgent need to fortify global
defenses against climate change, six donor countries have renewed their
funding commitment to the world’s poorest countries through the Least
Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), managed by the Global Environment
Facility. |
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Scenes of flooding and storms can show us just how much weather and
climate affects our lives. Climate change threatens our ability to
ensure global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable
development. The global response to climate change today will determine
how we feed future generations tomorrow. |
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A sustainable forest management (SFM) model focused on a high-value
species is bringing important benefits for local people in Tanzania and
helping ensure a long-term future for forests and communities, according
to Nakai Kazushi from Yamaha Corporation. |
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"We are happy to inform you about the activities of this unique
community. Our FSC colleagues did a great job at the Gabon Wood show in
June. It is an example of how to approach other potential stakeholders
and bring the positive message of the increase of sustainably managed
forests in Gabon. And consequently growing opportunities to supply
markets with sustainable FSC timber." |
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The New Deal initiative will support WWF
Cameroon to contribute to stopping global biodiversity decline and
promoting a New Deal to improve the integration of biodiversity in
public and private decisions. The Biodiversity Engagement Facilitation
initiative complements the New Deal. It will support WWF Cameroon to
engage stakeholders to contribute to bending the curve on biodiversity
decline by setting national and sectoral voluntary contributions.
Collectively, the two initiatives will support scientific studies,
training champions and CSOs ad collaborating with them to raise public
awareness and advocate for political and business adherence to the New
Deal, facilitating high level dialogue. Deadline for applications: November 17th, 2019.
Conservation International is seeking
consultants in Ghana, Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil, Republic of
Congo, Costa Rica and Colombia to analyze enabling and limiting factors
for climate, forest and land use strategies and plans, and to conduct a
country investment readiness assessment. Applications are due by 25
November 2019.
Job opportunity: Project Manager at
TRAFFIC – Angola
The
successful candidate will manage a comprehensive capacity building project
focussed on the training of Angolan investigators and, prosecutors and
informing the judiciary on countering the national and cross-border illegal
wildlife trade in that country. The executant will supervise and coordinate
staff from our project partner ICCF who will implement a policy and legislation
consultation with senior Angolan government legislators and policy makers. The
AO Project Manager is a key contact point for project implementation and
reporting. The AO Project Manager will report directly to the TSAf Senior
Programme Coordinator and liaise closely with the USAID KAZA-CWCP Project
Leader. Deadline for applications: 24th November 2019.
The African
forest policies and Politics (AFORPOLIS) organisation, TROPENBOS International
(TBI) and TROPENBOS Ghana (TBG) are organising the second social sciences
conference on “African forest-related policies and politics” (AFORPOLIS
conference 2020).
WWF CCPO
seeks the services of a consultant to undertake community level vulnerability
assessments in communities adjacent protected areas to assess direct impacts on
people and their livelihoods and potential indirect impacts on biodiversity and
ecosystems as communities cope with and adapt to impacts.
In its
second year, the International Award will recognise a project led by a woman or
group of women from an association or community network whose main objective
relates directly to medicinal plants as part of a biodiversity approach.The
call for application is opened until november 15, 2019.
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