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On May 29, 2020, about thirty
participants representing the members of the CBFP's Scientific and
Academic College took part in a virtual meeting convened by the
College's Leaders CIFOR and IRET. The agenda of the meeting focused on
introducing the road map of the current CBFP Facilitation as well as the
ongoing participative consultation process.
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The Prime Minister, Head of Government,
by Decree N°2020/3216 of 14 July 2020, authorised the gazetting of a
68,385 hectare portion of the State's Private Estate as a Forest
Management Unit known as FMU 07 006. This decision puts a final stop to
the debate on this issue which has generated a vast misinformation
campaign.
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On 04 June 2020, the German Federal
Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) organized a
first meeting of the CBFP Donor College. The meeting was held virtually.
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Berlin, 14 July 2020. Africa Nature
Investors Foundation (ANI) joined the membership of the Congo Basin
Forests Partnership (CBFP). As part of the accession process, Africa
Nature Investors Foundation (ANI) submitted the required documents...
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Libreville (Gabon), July 15, 2020 -
Experts from member states of the Economic Community of Central African
States (ECCAS) are in virtual conclave since this morning to decide on
the possibility of jumpstarting phase II of the Support PACEBCo from the
ashes of PACEBco I. |
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The Framework Agreement signed Monday
between these two partners has as main objective the sustainable
management of the Congo Basin forest ecosystems. |
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Following the workshop on the prospects
for implementing CEFDHAC reform, which took place in Douala from 21 to
22 May 2008 and following the Kigali CEFDHAC meeting, it became clear
that there was a need to organize general assemblies for the youth,
women...
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21July 2020, Rome - FAO launched today
the most comprehensive forestry assessment to date in an innovative and
easy-to-use digital format. Available for public viewing, the Global
Forest Resources Assessment report (FRA 2020) and its first-ever online
interactive dissemination platform...
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...To defeat COVID-19 through
greater solidarity and cooperation, and to highlight an even stronger
China-Africa community with a shared future, we, Chinese and African
leaders, convened an Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity
Against COVID-19 via video link on 17 June 2020.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. JULY 8, 2020: In the
most comprehensive report to date on the economic implications of
protecting nature, over 100 economists and scientists find that the
global economy would benefit from the establishment of far more
protected areas on land and at sea than exist today.
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In particular, most communities clear
forests for agriculture and related subsistence activities – such as
charcoal making and artisanal logging – to make a living. These are
today among the top drivers of forest disturbance.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a powerful
reminder of the inextricable link between humans, wildlife and the
environment. Most epidemics of zoonoses have their origins in a
breakdown in this relationship, resulting from unsustainable
exploitation of nature (1).
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During the High-Level Segment of the
fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 14) to the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Governments of China and
Egypt, together with the Secretariat of the CBD, launched the Sharm
El-Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People.
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In this excerpt from Nature's article
titled, "The biodiversity leader who is fighting for nature amid a
pandemic", Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on
Biological Diversity, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, discusses the need for
countries to build back better, given the challenges presented by the
coronavirus pandemic.
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The National Coalition for the Fight
Against Illegal Logging (CNCEIB) which recently established and
formalized cooperation ties with the Industrial Timber Federation (FIB),
published a press release on 13 May 2020, denouncing the presence of a thousand illegal timber logs docked at Kinkole ports during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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To address urgent, complex and
intertwined problems like climate change, deforestation and global
inequality policymakers need to learn from various attempts to transform
these “super wicked” challenges – and to put that learning into
practice, fast.
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Uganda has become the first African
country to submit REDD+ results to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), paving the way to potential
results-based payments.
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The Cameroon government has sent out an
appeal for national unity around biodiversity. Deforestation and
poaching have not yet reached alarming levels in the country which
harbors the Congo Basin’s second largest forest expanse. However, nature
is being damaged due to natural or human causes.
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The Bonn Challenge responds to the
urgent issue of land degradation that currently affects over 3 billion
people globally, and, by conservative estimates, close to 30% of arable
land.
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The Incubator Fund for Clean Cooking in
DRC aims to support companies to access knowledge, technologies and
finance that can help them become increasingly profitable, reliable,
viable and capable of providing innovative solutions to reduce wood
energy consumption and boost local socio-economic development in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. Deadline for submission of your
application: 31 July 2020 at 17:00 GMT+1 (Kinshasa, DRC time).
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On 1 July, China’s newly amended forest
law came into effect, marking the first revision of the law in over
twenty years. The law comes with a number of significant improvements,
aiming to better protect China’s forest resources, promote sustainable
development and contribute to the national policy of...
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SUMMARY Despite the Covid-19 pandemic
and the national restrictions in place to protect health, significant
progress has been made on many ongoing Park projects, including at the
craft market, the restaurant at the base of the Park base, and on staff
housing in Bomassa and Makao.
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The draft scoping report for the
transformative change assessment (thematic assessment of the underlying
causes of biodiversity loss and the determinants of transformative
change and options for achieving the 2050 vision for biodiversity) is
open for external review: 3 July 2020 – 28 August 2020 (8 weeks).
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The City of Montréal has developed six
briefing sheets on an equal number of concrete biodiversity initiatives :
ecosystems management in large parks, conservation of wildlife trees,
renewed and improved wildlife observatories, urban wildlife passages,
environmental action days and coexistence with coyotes.
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The impact of pandemic control measures
have hit West African timber producers across the region hard , coming
as it has at a time when demand in the traditional markets, especially
in Europe, were already under pressure from lower consumptions, changes
to other materials and over production of some species.
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This report takes a step back and
considers the root causes of the emergence and spread of the novel
coronavirus and other ‘zoonoses’ diseases that are transmitted between
animals and humans.
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The City of Montréal has developed six
briefing sheets on an equal number of concrete biodiversity initiatives :
ecosystems management in large parks, conservation of wildlife trees,
renewed and improved wildlife observatories, urban wildlife passages,
environmental action days and coexistence with coyotes.
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A new Green Climate Fund (GCF) project
to increase the resilience of marginalised communities in flood-prone
areas of Bangladesh comes at a critical time. Project activities
launched by GCF’s partner, the Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF),
will strengthen the adaptation capacity of those most at risk,
particularly female-led households, just as monsoon season threatens.
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2020 is a critical year for raising NDC
ambitions and was supposed to culminate at COP 26 this November.
However, the Covid-19 pandemic is devastating human lives and economies
worldwide and has also led to postponement of COP 26 to November 2021.
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As part of the activities of the FLEGT
REDD project, financed by the FFEM, ATIBT with the support of Form
International updates and animates the website. The country fact sheets
are currently being revised and translated and will be available in
French...
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The National Coalition to Combat
Illegal Logging (CNCEIB), with which the Federation of Timber
Industrialists (FIB) recently built and formalized collaboration, issued
a press release on May 13, 2020 to decision-makers denouncing the 1,000 illegal logs at the ports of Kinkole during this period of COVID 19.
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On Monday evening, top climate
diplomats decided the intersessional meeting which happens every year
between UN climate summits in Bonn, Germany, where UN Climate Change is
headquartered, would not be able to take place on the proposed dates of
4-12 October.
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The Executive Board of the Central
African Forest Initiative (CAFI) approved a USD 1.2 million project
aimed at assessing the recent drivers of deforestation and forest
degradation in 6 countries of Central Africa.
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SCALA responds to the urgent need for
increased action to cope with climate change impacts in the agriculture
and land use sectors. The twenty million euro programme will support at
least twelve countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build
adaptive capacity and to implement low emission priorities.
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To conceptualize such a mitigation
policy, we propose a two-step approach, combining the works of
Schlosberg, Fraser, and Sen. We argue that, to start with, it is
important to identify relevant forms of exclusion, and then, in turn, to
identify opportunities for ‘parity of participation’ of women in the
mitigation policy cycle.
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Building on the UN Secretary-General’s
report “Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity,” the UNCCD secretariat
has been recalibrating its 2020-2021 work programme to reflect the
realities of the COVID-19 crisis, address the current needs and
priorities of UNCCD Parties and continue to deliver on decisions taken
at UNCCD COP14.
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Rwanda became the first African country to submit its updated
national climate plan under the Paris Agreement this month. The
ambitious submission renews hope that 2020 can be “the Super Year for
Climate Action.”
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The recently published Environmental
and Social Standards (ESS) Guidance document and complementary Q&As
outline the steps and safety measures needed to mitigate potential risks
and impacts arising from COVID-19 in all FAO projects and programmes...
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The Bank has delivered on its goals of
reducing poverty and fostering inclusive growth on the continent. We
scaled up development support for our 54 regional member countries and
recorded remarkable successes in recent years in our renewed push to
help deliver life-changing impact to livelihoods.
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Across the development and medical
community, experts have acknowledged the disproportionate impact
COVID-19 has had on women. Many in Africa work in agriculture and the
informal sector, both industries facing massive stagnation from closed
businesses and closed borders.
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A high-level panel marked
Desertification and Drought Day 2020 with a discussion focused on the
Day’s theme, ‘Food. Feed. Fibre,” and the question, “Is it time for a
new social contract for nature?” Ministers and agency heads offered
recommendations for addressing vulnerabilities for land management that
have been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and options for building back
better.
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In response to the economic stimulus
packages launched in 2020, the campaign advocates for public spending
that minimizes impacts on nature, accounts for climate risks, improves
social cohesion, and stimulates green innovation.
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The ‘Principles for Recovery’ provide a
framework for decision making on infrastructure spending for
post-COVID-19 recovery and stimulus packages. The Principles call for
decisions on infrastructure spending for post-COVID-19 recovery to start
with strategic planning...
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UN Member States and officials are
considering changes to the format of the UN General Debate for the 75th
UN General Assembly session and the surrounding high-level meetings in
September 2020.
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Policy briefs from the UN Department of
Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) explain how pre-pandemic progress on
the SDGs may be reducing the impacts of COVID-19, and how forests can
make a unique contribution to recovery.
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This publication is a useful reference
of GCF's portfolio, providing an overview of GCF's projects and
programmes, geographic distribution, and breakdowns of GCF funding.
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This policy brief, written jointly by
the International Carbon Action Partnership and the Florence School of
Regulation, presents multiple policy options to keep carbon prices in
check and achieve zero emissions in time.
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This policy brief focuses on the topic
of global emergence of infectious diseases and its links with
consumption of wild meat, ecosystem disruption, habitat degradation and
biodiversity loss.
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Mark your calendars from 22-25 June
2020, 12:00-15:00 CET each day. The COVID-19 Forestry Webinar Week will
feature a series of virtual sessions in the week in which COFO and the
World Forest Week were originally scheduled.
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Every single pandemic has a link to
wildlife. They are all linked to human, anthropogenic, environmental
changes. They emerge through the connections we make to nature. These
will happen unless we change our relationship with nature.”
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The overall scope of the assessment is
to assess the status and trends with regard to biodiversity and
ecosystem services, the impact of biodiversity and ecosystem services on
human well-being and the effectiveness of responses, including the
Strategic Plan and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
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The co-chairs of the IPBES assessment
of the sustainable use of wild species argue forcefully that sustainable
use of biodiversity is vital to achieve the Sustainable Development
Goals.
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Why is 2020 a ‘super year’ for
biodiversity? This year, the 196 Parties to the Convention on Biological
Diversity will negotiate a new global framework to safeguard all life
on Earth. And there’s more...
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As countries continue to battle the
far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations today
called for the inclusion of sustainable forest-based actions in COVID-19
recovery programmes and policies.
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UN Climate Change News, 5 June 2020 -
To mark World Environment Day, a vast and unlikely alliance of
investors, activists, cities and corporates is gathering virtually for
the launch of Race to Zero, the global campaign to mobilise leadership
and support for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery which creates
well-paying jobs, unlocks inclusive, sustainable growth and prevents
future threats.
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COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease, meaning
that it jumps between animals and people, and is therefore closely
connected to the lands both inhabit. Human and economic activity is
eroding wild spaces, forests and other importan.
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During the fifteenth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will
adopt a post-2020 global biodiversity framework as a stepping stone
towards the 2050 Vision of “"Living in harmony with nature".
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Nairobi, 8 June 2020 – Seagrass meadows
can be a powerful nature-based climate solution and help sustain
communities hard-hit by stressors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, but
these important ecosystems continue to decline.
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The High-level Political Forum (HLPF)
concluded without adopting the expected ministerial declaration. Mona
Juul, President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), thanked
the co-facilitators of the consultations on the ministerial declaration,
saying that while an ambitious declaration was emerging...
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The new coronavirus pandemic, hopefully
leaving us, has brought much of the world to a halt, disrupting entire
food systems and the global economy and putting tens of millions out of
work. But this is not the only storm humanity is braving.
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The African Development Bank has
responded swiftly to the needs of its member countries during the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Bank’s operations have continued to run
smoothly since the first cases appeared in early March...
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Fifty-five people were kidnapped by
alleged LRA members during a double incursion on 18 and 19 May in the
localities of Bili and Baye, in Bondo territory (Bas-Uele).
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ITTO: The report of the International
Forum: Together Towards Global Green Supply Chains, held in Shanghai
last October, is now online. About 350 actors in the tropical timber
sector attended the forum, which ITTO co-organized...
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Desertification and Drought Day, a
United Nations observance day held on 17 June each year, will in 2020
focus on changing public attitudes to the leading driver of
desertification and land degradation: humanity’s relentless production
and consumption.
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The ITTO Environmental and Social
Management Guidelines draw on best practices globally to provide
user-friendly guidance on enhancing environmental and social safeguards
in ITTO projects.
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The Council of Ministers held its 9th Extraordinary Session by videoconference on 3 and 4 June 2020. |
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The report assesses entry points for action across existing global
agendas and suggests concrete recommendations for how policymakers,
development practitioners and donors can advance three inter-related
goals: peace and security, climate action and gender equality. |
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The 2019 Human Development Report’s
deep dive into the changing faces of inequality sharpened our thinking
and action, including on social protection. With nine out of our ten
largest programmes in fragile or crisis-affected countries and a new
Crisis Bureau in place, our humanitarian and peacebuilding partnerships
deepened.
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The Belgian Trade for Development
Centre (TDC) has launched a call for proposals for African Micro, Small
and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and producer organisations active
in sustainable production and trade. Applications must be submitted by
10th September 2020.
Rainforest XPRIZET
The Rainforest XPRIZE will accelerate
the innovation of autonomous technologies needed for biodiversity
assessment and will enhance our understanding of rainforest ecosystems
by using rapid data integration to provide new wisdom about the forest
as well as inspire new investment and exploration. The Rainforest XPRIZE
will reveal the true potential of the standing forest, accelerating the
development of new, just, and sustainable bioeconomies.
CIB is inviting you to send your
application for the job offer of manager resource planning in Republic
of Congo. Within the Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability team,
you will be responsible for the implementation of the Sustainable
Forest Management systems. You will be heading a team of about seventy
people of varied profiles.
IUCN is seeking a highly qualified
Chief Rapporteur to oversee the reporting of the Forum segment of the
IUCN Congress (8 – 11 January 2021), and to consolidate a summary report
for delivery to the Members’ Assembly (12 – 15 January 2021). Proposals
must be submitted by Friday 31 July 2020 at Midnight (12:00 AM) GMT +1.
Proposals submitted after this deadline will not be considered.
New Fund to develop sustainable energy in the DRC – CAFI
The Incubator Fund for Clean Cooking in
DRC aims to support companies to access knowledge, technologies and
finance that can help them become increasingly profitable, reliable,
viable and capable of providing innovative solutions to reduce wood
energy consumption and boost local socio-economic development in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. Deadline for submission of your
application: 31 July 2020 at 17:00 GMT+1 (Kinshasa, DRC time).
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