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| | | | | His Excellency Dr Christian Ruck, Goodwill Ambassador and CBFP Facilitator of the Federal Republic of Germany, testifies to the participation of technical and financial partners in the consultative process that led to the Declaration of Commitment of COMIFAC Member States to the Forests of Central Africa and calls for equitable financing and the "Fair Share" and "Fair Deal"...
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COP 26, Glasgow, 8 November 2021, held a
High-Level Side Event in the COMIFAC Congo Basin Initiative Pavilion on
the theme: "Nature-based solutions as means of conservation and
sustainable management of Congo Basin Forest landscapes for climate
change mitigation.” This high-level event between ministers of the Congo
Basin countries and representatives of development agencies was
attended by Ms. Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Director General of the GIZ
Presidium (Vorstand).
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COP 26 -
Glasgow-Scotland, 2 November 2021: The COMIFAC Basin Congo Initiatives Pavilion
was enhanced and honoured by the visit of His Excellency Felix Antoine
Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chairman of the
African Union. |
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Chaired by H.E. Jules Doret NDONGO,
Minister of Forests and Wildlife of Cameroon and current President of
COMIFAC, a high-level session on the commitment of Central African
countries and the Multilateral Financial Mechanisms for the protection
of Congo Basin was held today, 05/11/2021 in the COMIFAC Pavilion at the
COP26 Conference Centre in Glasgow, UK.
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Glasgow, 2 November 2021: President
Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Prime
Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom on behalf of the Central
African Forest Initiative (CAFI) today endorsed an ambitious 10-year
agreement (2021-31) to protect the Congo Basin rainforest – the world's
second largest. |
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Glasgow, Scotland, 31 October 2021 -
This Sunday marked the procedural opening of negotiations at the 26th
United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26).
Representatives of 196 countries and organisations, including His
Excellency Minister of Forestry and Wildlife of Cameroon, Jules Doret
Ndongo, current President of COMIFAC, attended the official launch of
technical and political exchanges on the issue. Cop26, as recalled by
scientists, is a decisive moment for humanity, which will allow us to
avoid catastrophic global warming. |
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Today, despite their comparatively
smaller area, the undisturbed forests in Central African of the Congo
Basin now absorb more carbon than in the Amazon and Southeast Asia
combined, and is thus the most important tropical carbon sink to date.
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Glasgow, United Kingdom (November 9,
2021) — The Adaptation Fund held its annual Contributor Dialogue on
Monday at the UN COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, and
received a record-shattering US$ 356 million in new support from
contributing national and regional governments announced at the dialogue
and over the next days.
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Twelve donor governments pledged $413
million in climate financing for the Least Developed Countries Fund
(LDCF) at Cop26 on Tuesday. Representatives of Belgium, the Belgian
region of Walloon, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland,
the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States were present
at a pledging event in the UNFCCC Blue Zone, moderated by Bezos Earth
Fund CEO Andrew Steer, where attendees discussed how to enhance timely
support for climate adaptation particularly in countries most vulnerable
to climate change.
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The study, which examined multi-species
population counts in the seven main savanna national parks of central
Africa, found that broader conservation efforts often led to decreased
populations, likely because the lands were too large to manage
effectively with the financial resources available.
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At today's high-level plenary session
at COP26, the European Commission announced a new pledge of €100 million
in finance for the Adaptation Fund. Speaking in Glasgow,
Executive-Vice-President Frans Timmermans said: “We
have to scale up international climate finance and provide a
predictable framework for its delivery. The Adaptation Fund can play a
key role and that is why I am pleased to announce for the first time
that the European Commission is committing €100 million to the Fund, to
support developing countries.”
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At an event at COP26 in Glasgow, a new $345 million, seven-year program, The Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR),
will launch projects in 27 countries, targeting the production and
value chains of eight key commodities: beef, cocoa, coffee, maize, palm
oil, rice, soy, and wheat. FOLUR aims to transform global food and land
use systems through a Global Platform and 27 country projects that
restore degraded landscapes and intensify sustainable land management
practices.
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With reference to the Glasgow Leaders
Declaration on Forests and Land Use of 2 November 2021 and its
commitment ‘to working collectively to halt and reverse forest loss and
land degradation by 2030 while delivering sustainable development and
promoting an inclusive rural transformation’, we, the Ministers and
representatives from the countries and organisations listed below make
the following statement, that we...
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With reference to the Glasgow Leaders’
Declaration on Forests and Land Use of 2 November 2021 and its
commitment ‘to working collectively to halt and reverse forest loss and
land degradation by 2030 while delivering sustainable development and
promoting an inclusive rural transformation’....
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In a show of support for those most at
risk from climate change, 12 donor governments have pledged $413 million
in new funding for the Least Developed Countries Fund during the COP26
climate summit. The LDCF, hosted by the Global Environment Facility, is
the only dedicated source of climate resilience funds for the 46 Least
Developed Countries, which have contributed the least to carbon
emissions and face some of the highest risks from the effects of climate
change.
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Key points included: The Glasgow
Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, pledging 137 countries to
conserve and restore forests, but criticised for being yet another
non-binding declaration with a distant target.
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board at
its twenty-ninth meeting, has allocated USD 500 million in GCF resources
for new climate projects, and taken significant steps to strengthen
results management for its growing portfolio. During the meeting, four
(04) new climate projects were approved and will mobilise a total sum of
USD 2,949 million for climate action in Africa, Asia, and Latin
America, with three of the four new projects targeting support to the
most vulnerable countries including Least Developed Countries, Small
Island Developing States, and African states.
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This publication analyses the funding
flows over the last decade in support of nature conservation and
sustainable management of the Congo Basin, presents various themes
covered by the current financing and identifies possible imbalances.
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During the official opening of the
ECOFAC6 Regional Programme’s Steering Committee, (organized in Douala,
Cameroon from 4 to 6 May) EU Ambassador, Ms. Rosario Bento-Pais,
recalled that the EU invests more than 80 million Euros in the ECOFAC6
Programme. The other 17 million are invested by the partners. Amounting
to approximately 100 million Euros, the investment makes ECOFAC6 the
largest European environmental programme in Central Africa and a
one-of-the-kind initiative in the world.
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Indigenous territories in the Bolivian,
Brazilian and Colombian Amazon avoid between 42.8 million and 59.7
million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year. To commemorate the
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, David Kaimowitz
explains why it’s time to join forces with indigenous peoples for the
good of the planet.
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CBFP Facilitator of the Federal
Republic of Germany, Honorable Dr. Christian Ruck, undertook a mission
in Gabon from the 9th to the 14th of May 2021. Dr Christian Ruck met in
turn with: the Prime Minister; the Minister Delegate for Water, Forests,
the Sea and the Environment; the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock,
Fisheries and Food; the Vice-President of the ECCAS Commission; the
Commissioner for the Environment, Natural Resources, Agriculture and
Rural Development; the National Climate Council... |
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Conclusions and outlook: Adapted local
LUP processes can serve as a foundation for securing tenure, reducing
social conflicts between external and local actors, or even within
forest adjacent communities meeting the SDGs, implementing REDD+ and
operationalizing the many commitments to zero deforestation commodity
production.
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This study was carried out to shed
light on issues related to this activity and provide basic knowledge of
various aspects relating to livestock rearing, neo-pastoralism and
unsustainable transhumance. The study area covers the Sudano-Sahelian
region of Africa – specifically, the area stretching from the northern
fringes of the Congo Basin (Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the
Congo and the Central African Republic) and the south-eastern part of
the southern Lake Chad Basin, namely the Sudano-Guinean savanna mosaics.
The methodology adopted was to collect data from various sources,
including from key stake-holders and literature review.
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The report draws on a thorough review
of the available literature. It is complemented by 21 semi-structured
anonymous interviews with key REDD+ experts. The authors conducted the
interviews between November 2020 and February 2021. Interview partners
include represent-atives of Congo Basin countries, donor states,
academia, NGOs and independent technical experts. Instead of going to
lengths in elucidating the entire range of options for reducing
deforestation and forest degradation, the study report lists concrete
courses of action which might be pursued in the future.
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Earlier today, the wood industry’s
COP26 International Partners Advisory Body launched its wood manifesto
entitled “Growing our Low Carbon Future: Time for Timber”. Forest
Products Association of Canada (FPAC) has been a leading partner in this
collaborative global effort to profile the key role timber and wood use
in construction can play in our move to a net-zero carbon economy.
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This is a second polite reminder to let
you know we are conducting an anonymous evaluation funded by the World
Resources Institute (WRI) of forest monitoring information and tools,
and their usefulness, with a particular focus on Global Forest Watch
(GFW), and stakeholder perspectives.
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Recognising the important role of
agricultural commodities to address climate change as well as achieve
the Sustainable Development Goals, notably promoting economic
development, reducing poverty, underpinning food security and improving
the livelihoods of billions of people; Recognising also the shared
responsibility of the agri-commodity sector, including traders,
processors, manufacturers, retailers and consumers, as well as
governments...
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Co-organised by COMIFAC, German
Facilitation of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) and Timber
Trade Federation of Great Britain (TTF UK), an important session on
private sector took place on 6 November 2021, at the COMIFAC Pavilion at
CoP26 in Glasgow, UK, on the theme: "Global Forests Need Global Governance".
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CIDT was honoured to be involved in the
international climate change summit – COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Through its collaboration with the Central African Forest Commission
(COMIFAC) and Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), CIDT organised a
panel discussion entitled – Saving Africa’s Congo Basin Rainforest,
People and Biodiversity. The panel discussion was held on 11th November 2021 in the COMIFAC pavilion. |
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I want to thank the authors for their
dedicated and high-quality work that went into the production of these
studies, as well as UNIQUE consulting for their tireless and engaged
support, which made all of them possible. The studies provide valuable
and urgently needed insights into some of the most pressing issues in
central African forest policy. But they also show up opportunities and
solutions for the future of the beautiful tropical forests of the Congo
Basin, which are of such immense value, as the second great green lungs
of the world, to all of humanity |
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The German CBFP Facilitation has
commissioned a package of 6 thematic studies on pertinent issues in
Congo Basin forest politics (namely REDD+ in the Congo Basin, Land Use
Planning, Transhumance, Ecotourism, Sustainable value chains, China´s
role in Central African forestry) as well as an overarching synthesis
study. Each study consists of a full study report as well as a short
policy brief. Please download the CBFP Study Package…
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increasingly taken note of the potential environmental and forest
impacts of its overseas trade, investment and other economic activities.
However, timber trade between China and Africa has so far not met the
requirements of international legality and sustainability standards.
Furthermore, China is highly involved in investment and construction of
infrastructure projects that may have caused forest conversion due to a
lack of comprehensive, effective management measures and a lack of
environmental impact analyses. |
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This study was performed with the
intent of understanding the challenges to developing eco-tourism in the
Congo Basin, and of identifying actions and recommendations to overcome
these challenges. A background study of the existing literature,
research articles, reports and national strategies (where available) was
performed to ascertain the political strategies and academic
understanding of ecotourism in the region.
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The Country Project Officer will be responsible for the development, coordination, implementation and reporting of GWP projects in the country, including the GWL programme, working closely with GWP CAf, PNE, the GWL Global Programme Coordinator, and the GW Africa Coordination Unit. Applications must be sent no later than 03 January 2022 at 15:30 local time and should be clearly marked "APPLICATION FOR THE POSITION OF GWP COUNTRY PROJECT MANAGER - CAR".
The Purchasing and Procurement Officer is responsible for the physical organisation of the work in the country office. He/she is responsible for the purchasing, logistics and procurement of the WWF Cameroon Programme. Interested candidates are invited to send their applications through the following link by Friday 31 December 2021.
In accordance with WWF's values, namely: Courage, Collaboration, Respect and Integrity, WWF Gabon is recruiting a Human Wildlife Conflict Manager Consultant based in the Gamba protected area complex (see detailed Terms of Reference). Applications consisting of a cover letter and curriculum vitae should be submitted by 17 December 2021
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