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On 13 April 2021, The Federal Republic
of Germany Facilitator of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP),
Honorable Dr. Christian Ruck, and several international and regional
NGOs, including Centre for International Development and Training, Fern,
Foder and World Resources Institutes, met virtually to discuss the
threats facing forests in Central Africa.
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As replacements for outgoing statutory
executives, the Extraordinary Council of COMIFAC Ministers have tapped
the following as the new statutory executives: Executive Secretary: Mr.
Hervé Martial MAIDOU from the Central African Republic; Deputy Executive
Secretary-Technical Coordinator: Mr. Chouaibou NCHOUTPOUEN from the
Republic of Cameroon; Administrative and Financial Director: Mr.
François DAYANG from the Republic of Chad.
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The Congo Basin’s forests and peatlands
are a major component of Earth’s life-support systems, and it is a key
supplier of vital minerals needed to build a low carbon economy. The
case for the people of the Congo to benefit from not exploiting these
resources is irrefutable.
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The report makes 22 recommendations for
governments and stakeholders. For example, it recommends that
governments link fiscal incentives to independent third-party
certification. One approach explored is a “bonus–malus” mechanism in
which a lower tax rate for certified operations (the “bonus”) is funded,
at least partly, by the increased rate for uncertified products (the
“malus”).
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An international study coordinated by
researchers from IRD and CIRAD reveals the composition of the tropical
forests of Central Africa and their vulnerability to the increased
pressure from climate change and human activity expected in the coming
decades.
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The Timber Trade Portal (TTP) is an
answer to the numerous questions timber traders have when it comes to
legal timber trade, due diligence, country requirements and export. It
serves as a central information point, with country profiles on both
timber industry and legislation of producer countries, mainly located in
tropical Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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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.
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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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Within the
frame of the ECOPRONAT research program (Encouraging the Development of a
Pro-Nature Economy), AFD is launching a call for expressions of interest (AMI)
for research on the "Mainstreaming biodiversity in economic sectors".
This Call for Expressions of Interest is the first phase of the selection
process. The aim: Funding one or two research projects which will start in the
fourth quarter of 2021. The call is open until May 28, 2021.
The CARN
ASPIRE Grant Program provides competitive research grants of up to $5,000 USD
for African graduate students and early career professionals working in the
areas of biodiversity, conservation and environmental sustainability in the
Congo Basin region. Deadline for Applications is July 15, 2021.
The U.S.
Forest Service (USFS) may seek the services of a Program Monitoring, Evaluation
and Finance Specialist to oversee the implementation of monitoring, evaluation,
and learning (MEL) activities and financial advisory support for U.S.
government (USG)-funded programs taking place in Cameroon, Gabon, Central
African Republic, Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Interested candidates should send a resume and letter of interest to METI with
the subject line Program Monitoring, Evaluation and Finance Specialist by May
14th, 2021.
The U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is pleased to announce its 2021 African
Elephant Conservation Fund Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). The
proposal submission deadline is 11:59 PM ET, June 25, 2021.
The
appointment will be made on a regular term contract for a period of three (3)
years, of which the first twelve months shall be considered as a probationary
period. Thereafter, the contract will be for a period of two years renewable,
subject to satisfactory performance and deliverables.
Cameroon
National Interpretation Public Consultation 19 April 2021 - 18 June 2021.
Please submit your observation by sending the attached form to the Technical
Secretariat of the National Interpretation of the RSPO standard for Cameroon,
latest by June 14, 2021.
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