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In Yaoundé, 20 November 2019, the Facilitator was received in audience
by COMIFAC Executive Secretary, Mr. Ndomba Ngoye Raymond, and then by
Mrs. Galega Prudence, Secretary General on behalf of His Excellency Mr.
Hélé Pierre (outside Yaoundé), Minister of Environment, Nature
Protection and Sustainable Development of Cameroon.
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The Minister of State François-Xavier de Donnea, Facilitator of the
Kingdom of Belgium of the CBFP, took stock with the various
interlocutors on several subjects, including: (1) The operationalization
of the N'Djamena Declaration - considering the extent of uncontrolled
transhumance between the Sahel and Equatorial Africa... (2) The need for
a summit of Heads of State concerned by this phenomenon...
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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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The new grant window projects approved
by the Board include small innovation grants for Armenia (through its
NIE, EPIU) and Chile (through its NIE, AGCID), and one project scale-up
grant for Rwanda through its NIE, the Ministry of Environment…Through
its concrete project funding process, the Board approved six concrete
adaptation projects totaling over US$ 52 million in Congo, El Salvador,
Georgia, Malawi, the Republic of Moldova, and a regional project in
Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda
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The training workshop on the preparation
of projects on forests in Central Africa and the initiation of a
Working Group on financing in the forest-environment sector in Central
Africa held from 18 to 21 November 2019 in Douala, Cameroon. This
workshop was co-organized by the Executive Secretariat of the Central
African Forest Commission (COMIFAC), the Secretariat of the United
Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP).
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This appeal by the President of the
Republic of Congo was made, once again, during his speech at the opening
of COP25, on 2 December 2019, in Madrid (Spain). Denis Sassou N'Guesso,
chosen as the spokesperson for Central Africa, who remains faithful to
his commitments, made a solemn appeal at the climate summit to fight
deforestation; "I remain more than ever faithful to my signature of the
Paris Agreement and I have decided to go even further in our concrete
commitment against deforestation, by going beyond incantatory speeches".
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From 12 to 13 November 2019, Hotel
Dajoll in Mbankomo hosted the national workshop for the technical
validation and ownership by stakeholders of Cameroon's National Strategy
for the Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas for the Conservation
and Valorization of Biodiversity (SNFDAP/CVBD).
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No mobilization for Central Africa
during the 24th GCF Board meeting which allocates USD 407.8 million,
raising GCF's total portfolio to USD 5.6 billion. The Board 24th
approved 13 new projects. Similarly, for Central Africa no projects were
approved under the Simplified Approval Process (SAP) as well as
accreditation during the 24th GCF Board meeting…
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WEDNESDAY, 4 DECEMBER 2019 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. - IFDDD. Presentations of the Negotiation Guide and Summary for Decision Makers at the CoP25. From 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Democratic Republic of Congo
"The resilience of agricultural
production systems in the face of climate change": Experiences from the
Democratic Republic of Congo
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For every Conference of Parties that has conducted climate negotiations
since COP21 in 2015, the Francophonie has booked and set up a Pavilion
for French-speaking actors. The Pavilion provided for the two-week COP
event is used to host various events and draws close to 2000
participants to each edition. It has always been a successful event
which is highly appreciated by the member States and Governments of the
Francophonie as well as civil society and private sector actors.
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The GCF Green Champions Awards was
launched in August this year to recognise and promote the most
noteworthy and successful efforts to fight climate change in developing
countries. The nominees, which include outstanding individuals and
organisations driving climate transformation, are among the prime
examples of initiatives that exemplify environmental, social and
business-led commitments to combat climate change.
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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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Adaptation Fund at COP25
The 25th Conference of the Parties to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25), as
well as CMP15 and CMA2 will be held from December 2-13, 2019 in Madrid,
Spain. The conference was originally scheduled to take place in
Santiago, Chile, but the venue was changed due to the difficult
situation the country was undergoing. However, Chile remains as the
COP25 Presidency with Spain stepping forward to host this conference of
“action”, demonstrating the spirit of cooperation and partnership in the
fight against climate change.
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Washington, D.C. (November 27, 2019) — The Adaptation Fund has enhanced
its suite of knowledge products with the launch of an interactive new
learning tool aimed at helping developing country organizations improve
access to adaptation finance.
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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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On 5 November, Fern and the Fair Trade Advocacy Office organised a
European Parliament event to discuss the European Union’s (EU) response
to the Amazon Fires and the urgent need to regulate EU agricultural
supply chains. The event was co-hosted by Members of the European
Parliament (MEPs) Maria Arena, Pascal Canfin, Heidi Hautala and Bernd
Lange.
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Durban, 15 November 2019 –
In a ministerial declaration issued today at the closing of the 17th
Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the
Environment (AMCEN), African governments agreed to make the Conference
the forum for making regional environment policies with effective
mechanisms for implementation.
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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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SUMMARY The 10th Nouabalé-Ndoki Foundation board
meeting was held in Ouesso on October 24th. The board of administrators
congratulated the park for the progress made on the implementation of
the 2019 Annual Park Work Plan.
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Songdo, 21 Nov 2019 The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the
African Development Bank (AfDB) are working together to support a USD
154.0 million renewable energy financing framework in Zambia.
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With the technical and financial
support of the German Cooperation through the GIZ project to support
COMIFAC, the COMIFAC Executive Secretariat hosted from 11 to 13 November
2019 the thirteenth meeting of the Central African Biodiversity Working
Group (GTBAC) in the meeting room of the CHEZ LANDO Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda. |
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The Federal Environment Ministry (BMU)
is supporting adaptation to climate change via projects which benefit
people and strengthen ecosystems at the same time. The restoration of
mangroves and coral reefs protects coastal areas from increasingly heavy
storms and the impacts of rising sea levels. Planting hillsides
prevents erosion and floods during rainfall. On the occasion of the 25th
UN Climate Change Conference (COP25), the BMU is increasing its
financial commitments for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) by around 60
million euros.
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Although we are in the rainy season, the rain this month has been
especially intense. We recorded 310 mm of rainfall as compared to 230mm
in October last year. This makes transport by boat easy as the river
level has considerably risen, but circulation along the tracks in the
Park has become somewhat complicated.
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The headquarters at Zakouma National Park, in southeastern Chad, is a
sand-colored structure with a crenellated parapet that gives it the look
of an old desert fortress. Outside the door to the central control room
on the second floor hangs an image of a Kalashnikov rifle, circled in
red, with a slash: No weapons allowed inside. Kalashnikovs are
ubiquitous in Zakouma. All the rangers carry them. So do the intruders
who come to kill wildlife.
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Rome, 28 Oct 2019 The increasing severity of climate
effects threatens to halt progress around the world in combatting a
variety of development goals. That is why increasing flows of finance
need to be directed towards bolstering food security by making
agriculture more sustainable and climate resilient.
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The operations of the logging companies, Société Bois Africains du
Cameroun (SBAC) and the Société Forestière de Bouraka (SFB), have been
suspended since 7 November 2019 by the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife
(MINFOF). The two companies respectively own the forest concessions UFA
10050 located in the surroundings of the Massa, Nkoulkoua and Londjap
villages in the Somalomo sub-division, in Upper-Nyong Division in the
East region of Cameroon and UFA 08006 located in Yoko in the Mbam and
Kim division in the Center region. |
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Community forestry can help secure environmental, social and economic
benefits by improving forest management and community livelihoods. Our
lawyer, Tanja Venisnik, says clear and coherent laws are key to successful community forestry.
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The third issue of the newsletter of the Sustainable Wildlife Management
(SWM) Programme has just been published. This issue presents the latest
progress in the implementation of the programme from July to October
2019 across the thirteen countries covered by the Programme in the
African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of States |
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16.12.2019–17.12.2019
16.12.2019–19.12.2019
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17.12.2019,
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21.01.2020–24.01.2020
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27.01.2020–29.01.2020
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08.02.2020–13.02.2020
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15.02.2020–22.02.2020
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15.02.2020–22.02.2020
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11.05.2020–15.05.2020
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The CDO
will lead delivery in Program 3, and support the achievement of the overall
mission of the Jengi Tri-Nationale de la Sangha (TNS) Program as needed.
Consistent WWF Cameroon vision of a future with healthy ecosystems and thriving
biodiversity supporting people and driving sustainable development in Cameroon,
the Jengi Tri-Nationale de la Sangha (TNS) Program has as mission to stop
biodiversity decline, reverse the negative trend and contribute to improvement
in the living conditions of the local communities and indigenous peoples (Baka).
Deadline for applications: December 16th, 2019
The TA will
lead delivery in Programs 2 and 4, and support the achievement of the overall
mission of the Jengi Tri-Nationale de la Sangha (TNS) Program as needed.
Consistent WWF Cameroon vision of a future with healthy ecosystems and
thriving biodiversity supporting people and driving sustainable development in
Cameroon, the Jengi Tri-Nationale de la Sangha (TNS) Program has as mission
to stop biodiversity decline, reverse the negative trend and contribute to
improvement in the living conditions of the local communities and indigenous
peoples (Baka). Deadline for applications: December 16th, 2019.
The
Administrator of the Salonga Programme will oversee the implementation of
administrative procedures, financial control and human resources of the
Programme based in Monkoto. He /She shall be in charge of developing
administrative and financial procedures and supervise administrative and
logistics staff of the Programme in collaboration with the local Human Resource
Office.
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). Please submit your abstract by January 15th, 2020.
TROPIMUNDO
is an EC-funded and excellence-labelled Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in
Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems. We aim to bring together expert Higher
Education Institutes (HEI), with long-standing worldwide expertise in tropical
rainforests and woodlands and in tropical coastal ecosystems. TROPIMUNDO
students are able to concentrate on botany, zoology and integrative ecosystem
approaches in institutions worldwide in 2 Master years, of which an entire
semester is spent in the tropics.
Applications
are now being accepted for the tenth training batch that will begin in Yaoundé
in March 2020 and will be taught in French and English.
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