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From 9 to 13 March the COMIFAC Working
Group meetings of the Central African Climate and Biodiversity
Negotiators took place in Douala, Cameroon. These two meetings were held
at the same time and place, with financial support provided by the
German cooperation.
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This 2019 Annual Report on Landmark
Deforestation Events (LDEs) based on Global Land Analysis and Discovery
(GLAD) alert tools, the first of its kind, is produced by the
Operational Unit for Forest Cover Monitoring (UOSCF), set up by Order No
0086/MINFOF/C2D-PSFE2 of 18 May 2016.
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Under the high patronage of Mr. Jules
Doret NDONGO, the Cameroon Minister of Forestry and Wildlife and Acting
Chairman of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) and with the
support of German Cooperation through the GIZ " Regional Project to
Support COMIFAC", a sub-regional workshop was held from March 1 to 4,
2021 in Douala, Cameroon, to validate the 2021-2025 Operational Plan of
the Sub-regional Convergence Plan and report on the first conclusions of
the mid-term evaluation of the same Plan.
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Cooperation between the Garoua Wildlife
School, the European Union and Germany. On Tuesday, 16 February 2021,
the official handing over ceremony of camping and field communication
equipment took place at the Garoua School of Wildlife.
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The following projects are relevant to the Congo Basin: (1)USD
29 million for PREFOREST CONGO - Project aimed at reducing greenhouse
gas emissions from forests in five departments in the Republic of Congo
with the FAO (FP159) – (2) USD 280 million for
Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI) Facility with
World Bank in Botswana, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of
the Congo, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Uzbekistan (FP163)....
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The
Democratic Republic of Congo has just taken the lead of the African group of
negotiators on biodiversity. It takes the torch from South Africa, which was at
the head of this structure since last year. The handover ceremony took place
this Friday, March 26.
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The work of
the seventh session of the African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development
organized under the theme "Building a better future: towards a resilient
and green Africa for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the 2063
Agenda" and placed under the patronage of the President of the Republic of
Congo His Excellency Denis SASOU NGUESSO effectively started this 1st March
2021 in virtual and face-to-face modes at the International Conference Center
of Kintele in Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo.
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T
Fern's
report "Beyond Commitments": How Can Nationally Determined
Contributions Contribute to Forest Governance and Local Community Resilience?
looks at progress, challenges and opportunities in six African countries:
Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of
Congo and Republic of Congo.
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The African Adaptation Initiative and
GCA consolidated their partnership with the signing of a Memorandum of
Understanding to support African leadership to accelerate climate change
adaptation across the continent.
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The Great Green Wall is a symbol of
hope in the face of one of the biggest challenges of our time –
desertification. Launched in 2007 by the African Union, this
game-changing African-led initiative aims to restore Africa’s degraded
landscapes and transform millions of lives in one of the world’s poorest
regions, the Sahel. Once complete, the Wall will be the largest living
structure on the planet – an 8,000 km natural wonder of the world
stretching across the entire width of the continent.
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Keeping tabs on the quantity of carbon
stored in forests is a vital part of global efforts to curb
planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. Protecting and sustainably
managing forests could contribute up to 30 percent of the goal
established by the U.N. Paris Agreement on climate change, which aims to
prevent mean annual temperatures from rising more than 1.5 to 2 degrees
Celsius above pre-industrial times.
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In a new report launched on World
Wildlife Day, WWF and TRAFFIC highlight mainland France’s and French
overseas’ role in the trade of CITES1 species. With millions of wildlife
specimens in trade to/from France each year, France is a significant
trader in the EU. Accordingly, France also has a key role to play in
preventing the over-exploitation of wildlife, by continuing to ensure
the effective implementation of CITES and combating wildlife
trafficking.
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This letter was sent to President of
the European Commission von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President
Timmermans, Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Sinkevičus , Minister
Matos Fernandes, MEP Guteland and other Members of the European
Parliament, and Members of Coreper II.
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Read: Position of European Partners on
SIGIF 2 in Cameroon; Only few days left to register for the webinars
"The Role of Forest Certification in the EUTR"; ATIBT technical data
sheet : quality of plantation species for timber use; "Choosing tropical
woods to fight climate change" says Timber Trade Federation...
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Forests are good for our physical and
mental wellbeing. Spending time around trees helps boost our immune
system, lowers blood pressure and promotes relaxation. From cleaner air
to providing natural cooling and the freshwater we drink, forests
support our health in ways that may not be visible. |
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March 2021 Highlights: Rescued 1
Black-bellied pangolin; Released 1 Black-bellied pangolin back into the
wild; Released 19 African grey parrots into the wild; Finished
maintenance of Gorilla group 1 night den; Completed phase 1 of the
Gorilla re-enrichment project…
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Read: FLEGT ‘Fitness Check’: Abandoning
FLEGT licenses would harm forest governance and the legal timber trade;
EU Law on deforestation: Key land rights risk being ignored in DG
Environment’s proposal; Could the palm oil arrangement between Indonesia
and Switzerland offer lessons for EU and Indonesia free trade agreement
negotiations?
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Reference is made to Notification
2020-050 issued on 14 July 2020, by which the Secretariat had informed
Parties and observers of revised dates (17 to 30 May 2021) for the
Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on
Biological Diversity, the Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety, and the Fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access
to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits
Arising from their Utilization.
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Liu Zhenmin, head of the UN’s
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), issued the call
during a virtual event to commemorate the International Day of Forests,
observed annually on 21 March. He said the forest sector has provided
essential and lifesaving health products during the pandemic, such as
face masks, cleaning supplies and ethanol used in sanitizers.
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The lead up to the UN Biodiversity
Conference in Kunming, China, provides the global community with further
opportunities to galvanize efforts at all levels to build a better
future in harmony with nature.
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large numbers of elephants, chimpanzees
and gorillas, as well as numerous other species and habitats. The area
covers some 178,000 square kilometres, 97 percent of which is forest,
making it a large and productive carbon sink. Illegal logging,
large-scale mining, poaching, and forest conversion for commodity crops
has made the area vulnerable and is threatening its ecosystem.
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The world’s first complete historical and current overview reveals
that two thirds of the tropical rainforest on Earth are gone or
degraded. Rainforest Foundation Norway launches the unique State of the
Tropical Rainforest Report at the beginning of a significant year for
environmental protection, with the UN biodiversity and climate change
summits providing opportunities for accelerated global efforts.
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The co-facilitators for the negotiated
outcome of the 2021 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable
Development have issued an outline for consideration. The proposed
structure includes sections on: the impact of COVID-19 on the 2030
Agenda; progress towards the SDGs under review in 2021; and accelerated
actions to achieve the SDGs.
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The first school year of the Master of
Wood Sciences will start in September 2021 at the Faculty of Sciences of
the University of Montpellier to train executives, engineers and future
researchers, who will be the driving force behind development and
innovation in local and tropical companies in the Forest-Wood sector and
research laboratories. |
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Read: A webinar series organized by the
World Bank's Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) to celebrate a
decade of collective work on carbon pricing; Regional Working Group
Calls…
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The undeniable connection between
nature, human health, and economic well-being has become more evident
than ever during this time of crisis. Resilience is in our nature: IUCN
and its Members are working to ensure a nature-based recovery that can
deliver sustainable solutions, providing a foundation for a healthier
relationship between humanity and the planet.
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Read: Wildlife: The pangolin has never
been a particularly eye-catching species, unlike others such as
elephants, gorillas or whales, or even a well-known one…. Discover the
Biodiversity of the DSPA: The main characteristic that this mammal
possesses is that it is covered in big scales over the majority of its
body… Community Development…
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Yaoundé, March 5, 2021 - The Central
African region is gripped by several humanitarian crises, resulting in
high numbers of displaced people (refugees and internally displaced
persons), especially in the Central African Republic, Cameroon and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The International Renewable Energy
(IRENA) has published a preview of its publication, ‘World Energy
Transitions Outlook.’ The report reviews technology choices, investment
needs, and socio-economic contexts necessary to set the world on a
trajectory towards a sustainable, resilient and inclusive energy future.
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Pushed off their customary lands and
severed from their traditional way of life, Indigenous communities
living on roadsides in the tropical forests of Central Africa face
perilous conditions. The livelihoods of about 10,000 Baka Pygmies in
southeastern Cameroon are in jeopardy, according to a new study in
Scientific Reports led by scientists with the Center for International
Forestry Research (CIFOR), which shows their available hunting area is
at risk.
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Three years on, the NDC Partnership’s
hard work is bearing fruit. Together, we are producing country led plans
that offer a pathway to achieving the low-carbon, climate-resilient
societies envisaged by the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development. Across the world, our country members and
institutional partners collaborate to cut economy-wide emissions, build
sustainable communities, mobilize financial and technical support, and
engage civil society.
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has joined
forces with Pegasus Capital Advisors and the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in an innovative bundling of
public-private financing to plug a funding gap for sub-national climate
initiatives.
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RFUK has long understood that women
have a central role to play in protecting and managing the world’s
rainforests. They are the main providers of food, water and medicine to
their families, who depend greatly on rainforests for their livelihoods.
They hold vast traditional knowledge of their forests and their
biodiversity. This understanding informs our work and that of our
partner organisations in Africa and Peru. We look to help women to
defend their rights and to play a greater role in deciding how their
traditional forests are managed.
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RFUK, Greenpeace and Congolese civil
society groups are calling on the DRC Government to revoke three million
hectares of illegal logging concessions or risk wrecking its image on
the international climate stage.
Read more … |
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February saw the 13th session of our
Advisory Board meeting, held in Brazzaville, where our workplan and
budget for 2021 were finalised and approved. This year will see a whole
host of developments from the park - from new construction, including
schools, markets and clean-water pumps, to new projects, such as the
Makao community pharmacy, due to be launched in March 2021. We here at
the park look forward to getting stuck into these challenges.
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Following is UN Secretary-General
António Guterres’ message for the International Day of Forests, observed
on 21 March: Humanity’s well-being is inextricably linked to the health
of our planet. Forests play a crucial role.
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Elon Musk tweeted earlier this year
that he would be "donating $100 million towards a prize for best carbon
capture technology”. Out of 600 thousand likes and retweets, twenty
thousand corresponded to a brilliant solution: “A tree”. The Tesla boss
responded that trees were, indeed, part of the solution, but that we may
require something that is “ultra-large-scale industrial in 10 to 20
years”. The sense of acting ‘urgently’ and at ‘scale’ are clearly
central to the concepts of innovations announced in his offer.
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In the upcoming Trilogue negotiations
on the European Climate Law, there is a crucial choice to be made about
the balance between emission reductions in the EU Emissions Trading
System (EU ETS) and Effort Sharing Regulation sectors, and carbon
removals in the Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) sector.
Near-term emission reductions with only minimum reliance on carbon
dioxide removal (CDR) are hugely important to avoid both intolerable
risks of overshooting 1.5°C rise, and of aggravating the social risks of
large-scale CDR.
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its
partners have signed implementation agreements for two new climate
finance projects only hours after they were approved by the GCF Board.
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REN21’s Renewables in Cities Global
Status Report (REC) series provides an overview of the status, trends
and developments of renewable energy in cities, using the most
up-to-date information and data available. The REC’s neutral, fact-based
approach documents in detail the annual developments in policies,
markets, investments and citizen action, with a particular focus on
renewables in public, residential and commercial buildings as well as
public and private urban transport. This report aims to inform decision
makers and to create an active exchange of views and information around
urban renewable energy.
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The ATIBT and the Malaysian Timber
Council (MTC) have recently held several online meetings to clarify
their common issues for the development of a responsible tropical timber
sector. These meetings have been preceded in recent years by annual
meetings.
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is heeding
calls to help developing countries bolster their defences against the
increasingly damaging effects of climate change, while overcoming
COVID-19 fiscal constraints.
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The Children and Youth Major Group to
the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) organized a virtual Youth
Environment Assembly to coordinate, mobilize, and build capacity ahead
of the fifth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5). Participation was open to
any youth and youth organizations to discuss and identify their broader
priorities for environmental action.
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The 2021 Desertification and Drought
Day to be held on 17 June will focus on turning degraded land into
healthy land. Restoring degraded land brings economic resilience,
creates jobs, raises incomes and increases food security. It helps
biodiversity to recover. It locks away the atmospheric carbon warming
the Earth, slowing climate change. It can also lessen the impacts of
climate change and underpin a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cambridge, UK: 16th February 2020 -
With governments meeting this week to discuss targets and indicators for
the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, TRAFFIC urges Parties to
strengthen global efforts to ensure trade and use of species is legal,
at sustainable levels and safe, and effectively measure progress on the
implementation of these efforts.
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World Wildlife Day will be celebrated
in 2021 under the theme "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and
Planet", as a way to highlight the central role of forests, forest
species and ecosystems services in sustaining the livelihoods of
hundreds of millions of people globally, and particularly of Indigenous
and local communities with historic ties to forested and forest-adjacent
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Community-Based Forest Management
(CBFM) is the management, by communities or smallholders, of forests and
agroforests they own, as well as the management of state-owned forests
(some of which share customary tenure and rights under traditional laws
and practice) by communities.
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The objective of this study was to map
out international funding flows, which will support the forest and
environmental sectors in CA. This will serve as background for the
policy analysis paper. Specific objectives include: (a) analysis of
financing flows directed to CA over the last decade in support of nature
conservation, sustainable forest management and climate change;
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Land is the foundation of our societies
and is a cornerstone to global food security and environmental health,
zero hunger, poverty eradication and affordable energy. It underpins the
success of the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmen, and yet
this finite resource is under existential threat.
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The implementation of the project will require IUCN to recruit a National
Socio-Economic Expert to support the elaboration of feasibility studies and the
full project proposal of the above project, notably to collect field data,
support stakeholder consultation, facilitate contacts between a Consultancy
Firm and other international experts. The submission deadline, no later than 8
am Cameroon time on May 3, 2021.
The implementation of the project will require IUCN to recruit a National
GIS Expert to support the elaboration of feasibility studies and the full
project proposal of the above project, notably to collect field data, support
stakeholder consultation, facilitate contacts between a Consultancy Firm and
other international experts. Note: Submitted documents must be
password-protected so that they cannot be opened and read before the submission
deadline. Please use the same password for all submitted documents. After the
deadline has passed and no later than 8 am Cameroon time on May 3, 2021.
The implementation
of the project will require IUCN to recruit a National Forestry and REDD+
Expert to support the elaboration of feasibility studies and the full project
proposal of the above project, notably to collect field data, support
stakeholder consultation, facilitate contacts between a Consultancy Firm and
other international experts. Consultants must submit their applications to IUCN
no later than Midnight Cameroon time on May 2, 2021.
The implementation
of the project will require IUCN to recruit a National Carbon Stock Evaluation
Expert to support the elaboration of feasibility studies and the full project
proposal of the above project, notably to collect field data, support
stakeholder consultation, facilitate contacts between a Consultancy Firm and
other international experts. Please use the same password for all
submitted documents. After the deadline has passed and no later than 8 am
Cameroon time on May 3, 2021...
The Central African
Forest Commission (COMIFAC) has received funding from the European Union
through the BIOPAMA CCR project and plans to use part of this grant to hire an
individual Web Development Expert” for a period of 24 months” based in Yaoundé,
Cameroon. Expressions of interest must be submitted in five (05) copies to the
COMIFAC Executive Secretariat no later than 20 April 2021 at 3 p.m.
The Central African
Forest Commission (COMIFAC) has received funding from the European Union
through the BIOPAMA CCR project and plans to use part of this grant to hire an
individual Expert Consultant in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) “for a
period of 24 months” based in Yaoundé Cameroon. Expressions of interest must be
submitted in five (05) copies to the COMIFAC Executive Secretariat no later
than 20 April 2021 at 3 p.m.
The COMIFAC Support
Project (GIZ / COMIFAC) is seeking a Monitoring and Evaluation Technical
Advisor for its Coordination Office in Yaoundé. Application submission
deadline: 23 April 2021.
To support and
monitor this area, the COMIFAC Support Project (GIZ / COMIFAC) is seeking a
(01) Technical Advisor in charge of Event Communication for its Coordination
Office in Yaoundé. Application submission deadline: 23 April 2021.
To support and monitor this area, the COMIFAC Support Project (GIZ /
COMIFAC) is seeking two (02) Technical Advisers who will be responsible for the
institutional aspects of Indigenous Populations and Local Communities (PACL) at
its Coordination Office in Yaoundé. Application submission deadline: 23 April
2021
How to Apply:Please submit a resume with cover letter. Applicants
must apply through the WRI Careers portal to be considered. Provide technical support in favour of
formalization and good governance of the artisanal logging, wood energy
(charcoal and fuelwood) supply chain, and non-timber forest products (NTFP).
Main tasks and responsibilities: To support the park in its community aspects, particularly the conservation program for the implementation of the inclusive conservation strategy in and around the park. Applications including a letter of motivation and a curriculum vitae should be sent to the email address: wwfgab@wwfgab.org no later than April 16, 2021.
The World
Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is looking for a consultant for the production of
the detailed technical file for the rehabilitation of the bridge over the
Bongola River, the re-profiling of the Dipikar Island access road and the park
crossing road (including the four defective bridges) in Campo Ma'an National
Park. The deadline for submission of applications is April 15, 2021.
The World
Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is looking for a consultant for the Environmental
Impact Assessment for the rehabilitation of the bridge over the Bongola River,
the re-profiling of 20 km of access road to Dipikar Island (gorilla habitat)
and the re-profiling of 35 km of the park's cross-country road including the
rehabilitation of 4 bridges on this stretch. The deadline for applications is
April 15, 2021.
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