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From July 5 to 8, 2022, the Members
Parties of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) met in Libreville,
Gabonese Republic, for their 19th meeting and celebrated the 20th
anniversary of their Partnership. The 19th meeting of the Parties to the
CBFP brought together approximately 600 participants representing
Central African countries, donors, international organizations, NGOs,
civil society, representatives of research institutions and
representatives of the private sector. Please download the final
communiqué of the MOP19.... |
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Convened by Mr. Jules Doret NDONGO, the
Cameroon Minister of Forestry and Wildlife and current Chairperson of
the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC), an extraordinary
session of the Council of Ministers in charge of Forests and/or
Environment of member states was held in Libreville, Republic of Gabon
on 9 July, 2022. This Council of Ministers session took place on the
side-lines of the 19th Meeting of the Parties of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). It was preceded, on 6 and 7 July, by the Experts meeting.
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This is a synthesis of the Speech by the MOP19 Secretariat. As Chair of both the CBFP as well as the CAFI Executive Board, Germany
would like to take this opportunity to underline its commitment to a
continued fruitful collaboration with our Central Africa partners and
all stakeholders in the region. We all know that the Central African forests are key to our survival on this planet. This is why we are here....
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…As we give the COP26 pledge a permanent
home at the CBFP... And having committed to investing nearly a third of
UK International Climate Finance – which we recently doubled – into
nature, at least half of that in forests...we’re forging ahead with the work that our £200m commitment to the Congo Basin pledge will support…through
the brilliant Forests, Governance, Markets, and Climate Programme, our
newly established transboundary Biodiverse Landscapes Fund, and a new
bilateral programme that we’re designing ahead of COP27…alongside our
£32m contribution to CAFI. We know CAFI needs to change – and we’re committed to that as well....
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Libreville (Gabonese Republic) - 7 July
2022 - The 10th CBFP Governing Council Meeting was held on held on 7
July 2022 and chaired by Hon. Dr. Christian Ruck, CBFP Facilitator of
the Federal Republic of Germany, co-chaired by His Excellency Mr. Jules
Doret Ndongo, Minister of Forestry and Wildlife of Cameroon, current
Chairman of COMIFAC and hosted by His Excellency Prof. Lee White,
represented by His Excellency Michel Stéphane Bonda, Minister Delegate
of the Ministry of Water and Sanitation of Cameroon.
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July 2022, Libreville. France will take
up the Facilitator role of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP)
for the second time after the United States, the European Union, Belgium
and Germany. This announcement was made by Her Excellency Chrysoula
Zacharopoulou, Secretary of State for Development, Francophonie and
International Partnerships attached to the French Ministry of Europe and
Foreign Affairs, during the 19th Meeting of the Parties of the Congo
Basin Forest Partnership, held from 5th to 8th July, 2022 in Libreville, Gabon.
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8 July 2022, Libreville – Germany has
committed 45 million euros for the conservation of the Congo forest –
one of the largest remaining carbon stores worldwide. That was announced
today by Development State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth at the Annual
Meeting of the Congo Basin Partnership in Libreville (Gabon). The forest
partnership which is aimed at conserving the unique tropical region is
celebrating its 20th anniversary.
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High-level roundtable on the vision
2030 for the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) - Libreville, 7
July 2022 and Annual Forum of the Central African Forest Initiative
(CAFI. Libreville, 6 July 2022... Please download the Summaries...
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LIBREVILLE, GABON — The United States
Government is renewing its longstanding commitment to the protection,
conservation, and sustainable management of the Congo Basin, the world’s
second largest tropical rainforest with the launch of the fourth phase
of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID)
Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment, also known as
CARPE. The U.S. Embassy in Libreville detailed the U.S. government’s
renewed commitment to the Congo Basin at the Congo Basin Forest
Partnership (CBFP) Meeting of Parties held July 5‐8, 2022, in
Libreville, Gabon.
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Please download the recommendations,
conclusions, messages coming out of the deliberations of Streams 1a, 1b,
2 and 3, Technical Segment of the MOP 19 of the CBFP of Libreville
towards sustainable development for Central Africa’s countries, people,
forests and biodiversity...These conclusions also serve as a roadmap for
the partners to implement the "Declaration of commitment of COMIFAC
Member States to the forests of Central Africa and call for equitable
financing" and the “Joint Declaration of the Congo Basin donors of
COP26”…
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Berlin, 12th August 2022, the Republic
of Korea (ROK), represented by the Korea Forest Service (KFS), has
officially joined the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). ROK has
submitted their application and consented to the CBFP members’
cooperation framework in promoting sustainable management of forest
ecosystems in Central Africa.
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Berlin, 12th September 2022, the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR), has officially joined the 124 members of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP).
INBAR has submitted its application and consented to the CBFP members’
cooperation framework to promote sustainable management of forest
ecosystems in Central Africa.
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Berlin September 7, 2022. Honourable
Dr. Christian Ruck, CBFP Facilitator of the Federal Republic of Germany
travelled to Brussels to co-host together with the Member of the
European Parliament from the Group of the European People's Party (EPP)
Dr. Angelika Niebler, a casual round table on the importance of the EU’s
support in achieving better protection of the Congo Basin Forests,
including through a “Fair Deal” mechanism for long-term financing of the
region by means of payments for ecosystem services approach. |
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2002 - 2022 the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) Party celebrates its 20th anniversary. Messages from three former members of the ...
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Dear partners of the Congo Basin forests and representatives of the COMIFAC countries. I am very pleased that we are all here today. I would like to thank Gabon and the German Facilitation for their organization. We are here at a time when many countries in the world are divided, including over the management of vital resources. But there is no fatality. There is another way: that of cooperation and multilateralism. Please download the speech...
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Please kindly consult the main
conclusions of the two side events organised by CIFOR and USFS in the
margins of CBFP MOP 19 on: Slot 1: Current scientific activities on
peatlands (and other wetlands) in the Congo Basin and Slot 2: Early
responses to protect and manage peatlands in the Congo Basin.
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Libreville July 5 13:00 – 14:30 Stream (2) Biodiversity: The Future of Protected Areas.
The Africa Protected Areas Director (APAD) forum is a platform and
network open to the representatives of national authorities of Protected
Areas operating throughout Africa. APAD aims to foster information
sharing, develop a common agenda for Africa's protected areas,
facilitate collaboration and collective responsibility among the Africa
Protected Areas Directors. The platform is underpinned by an Africa-led
agenda for protected and conserved areas as the backbone of natural
infrastructure.
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During the event, FSC introduced a
range of FSC solutions that are being deployed across the world and in
the Congo Basin to strengthen the governance of forests for people and
economy, address the climate challenge and strengthen tropical forest
product value chains in traditional and emerging markets. These
include...
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The DYNAFAC side event took place in the form of presentations reviewing 40 years of research on forest dynamics and concluding with initial recommendations for policy makers. The first presentation entitled "Structure, diversity and dynamics of Central African forests: the main achievements of the DynAfFor and P3FAC projects" was given by Sylvie GOURLET-FLEURY (CIRAD, France) and Félix ALLAH-BAREM (ICRA, CAR), and the second presentation entitled "Population dynamics of Central African commercial tree species: les principaux acquis des projets DynAfFor et P3FAC" was given by Jean-Louis DOUCET (Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech -Université de Liège, Belgium) and Franck MONTHE (Nature+ asbl, Belgium).
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A side-event entitled "Monitoring the implementation of the N'Djamena
Declaration and the Development of Country Investment Plans in
preparation for N'Djamena 2” was held on 07 July 2022. Experts from the 3
geographical and thematic blocs of the N'DJAMENA Declaration attended
the day of strategic reflection on the subject of transhumance. A
roadmap and a logical framework which the experts had established during
previous work sessions were presented at the meeting. Other
presentations delivered during the gathering highlighted the wide range
of activities conducted by conservation actors, from the perspective of
peaceful management of transhumance.
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The first edition of the African Parks Congress (APAC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was held from 18 to 23 July 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda, under the theme of African protected areas for people and nature. Among the hundred or so exhibitors at the exhibition part of the event, several organizations were represented, including the Central African Forest Commission.
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The 13th Workshop of the Central African Forest Commission's Sub-Working
Group on Protected Areas and Wildlife (SGTAPFS) took place in
Libreville, Republic of Gabon, from 11 to 15 July 2022. The German
Cooperation through the GIZ Regional Project to Support COMIFAC, the
European Union through the ECOFAC VI Program, and WCS provided technical
and financial support for the workshop, which was coordinated by the
institution's Executive Secretariat.
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Third session of the Tri-national Supervisory and Arbitration Committee (TASC) on the Cooperation Agreement between Cameroon, Central African Republic and Chad for the fight against poaching (AT-LAB) in N'Djamena at the invitation of Mr. MAHAMAT AHMAT LAZINA, Minister of Environment, Fisheries and Sustainable Development of Chad and current Chairman of the TASC. Please download the documents of the meeting....
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The Binational Supervisory and Arbitration Committee (CBSA), on the
Cooperation Agreement between Cameroon and Chad for the concerted
management of the Bouba Ndjidda and Séna Oura cross-border protected
area complex, has held its second session at the invitation of Mr. Jules
Doret NDONGO, Minister of Forests and Wildlife of Cameroon and Current
President of CBSA. Kindly download the documents....
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We, representatives of civil society in Central Africa who participated in person and remotely in the 19th Meeting of the Parties of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), which was held from 5 to 8 July 2022 in Libreville, Gabonese Republic, under the facilitation of the Federal Republic of Germany; Gathered on July 6, 2022 on the sidelines of this meeting as part of a strategic workshop of civil society organizations working for good governance of natural resources in the countries bordering the Congo Basin...
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The side event began with an
introduction of Denis SONWA, followed by the presentation of the large
articulations in front of furnished the sequence that was made by Abdon
AWONO. He stressed the importance of the efficient management of wood
energy in Central Africa in a context marked by global changes and where
the majority of the population uses woodfuel as the main source of
energy.
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Organized on July 06, 2022 by Field Legality Advisory Group (FLAG), Conservation Justice (CJ) and Brainforest, the side-event "Actions of follow-up and legal watch by the civil society for the protection of Central African forests"
had as main objective to highlight the initiatives of follow-up on the
environmental litigation and to discuss ways and means for an increase
of similar actions. To this end, the co-organisers presented the results
of their actions, including the challenges and stakes of follow-up on
disputes arising from natural resource management in the Congo Basin,
before an online and in-person audience.
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The event was based on knowledge
exchange on the evolution of MRV in central Africa. It combined direct
presentations including online and physical participation and had as
objective to review and share lessons on more than a decade of REDD+ MRV
in Central Africa, to take stock and map the way forward for improving
MRV and Transparency systems in the region. The event was comprised of 4
presentations.
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Libreville 07-07-2022. The Sustainable
Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme organized a side event at RDP19 from
1:00 to 3:00 pm. Key messages from the side event include: The
diversity of socio-ecological, cultural, demographic, epidemiologic and
economic contexts in the sub-region, requires different wildlife
management models to best fit local realities, and, doing so, be better
accepted by users and more effective. To develop those models,
multi-disciplinary approaches that consider all three – ecological,
economic and social – dimensions of sustainability are needed.... Please
download the document...
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19th Meeting of the Parties of the
CBFP, Radison Blu Hotel, Libreville, 06 July 2022 - As the global
challenges of combating the climate crisis and biodiversity erosion
increasingly focus on the protection of tropical forests, ClientEarth in
partnership with Brainforest launched an invitation to discuss the
political and legal basis for placing communities at the centre of
forest management. The panel focused on experiences of implementing
community forestry in Gabon, including opportunities and challenges. The
session was marked by two phases of presentations and discussions
respectively.
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The Executive Secretariat of COMIFAC, the Directors in charge of wildlife and protected areas, the heads of the national agencies of the sub-regional parks, as well as the technical and financial partners of COMIFAC, met in Libreville from 11 to 15 July 2022 for the 13th meeting of the Sub-Working Group on Protected Areas and Wild Fauna of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC).
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The side event began with an
introduction of Denis SONWA, followed by the presentation of the large
articulations in front of furnished the sequence that was made by Abdon
AWONO. He stressed the importance of the efficient management of wood
energy in Central Africa in a context marked by global changes and where
the majority of the population uses woodfuel as the main source of
energy.
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We, members of the Civil Society College of the CBFP represented by CEFDHAC and its affiliated networks (REPAR, REFADD, REJEFAC, REPALEAC, ReRaC, SEEAC, RECEIAC, RECTRAD), and ROSCEVAC, are honored to deliver the "Declaration" sanctioning the reflection of the Civil Society College held on July 7, 2022 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Libreville in the Gabonese Republic, as a prelude to the preCOP 27 common position paper, recommend the following ..
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This session clarified the subsidiary,
though indispensable, role of human-elephant conflict mitigation
methods. It underlined the importance for conservation actors to work
towards human-elephant coexistence, which is the only way to ensure the
preservation of elephants and the well-being of local communities. It
should be remembered that true human-elephant coexistence is a state of
cohabitation where the well-being of humans and elephants is ensured in a
sustainable manner. As elephants are in the same natural environment as
humans, with mutual aggression linked to conflicts of interest between
the two and among humans, this state of coexistence can only be achieved
if communities exceed the levels of tolerance and acceptance of
elephants....
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The Legacy Landscapes Fund organised this session with
the intention of sharing good practices and creating synergies and
lessons learned among conservation actors in the application of social
and human rights safeguards in conservation. The Legacy
Landscapes Fund is a conservation fiduciary fund that aims to protect
some of the most important landscapes for biodiversity and climate on
this planet in perpetuity. Therefore, it is extremely important for all
stakeholders involved that these Legacy Landscapes are managed in
accordance with environmental and social safeguards in order to prevent
and mitigate any potential negative impact that any action may have on
the environment itself, but also on the staff and the indigenous and
local people who live in and around these landscapes.
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Libreville 07-07-2022. The Sustainable
Wildlife Management Programme organised a side event at MOP19 from 13:00
to 15:00. The key messages from this meeting are the following: The
diversity of socio-ecological, cultural, demographic, epidemiological
and economic contexts in the sub-region requires different models of
wildlife management to adapt best to local realities, and in doing so,
be more user-friendly and effective. Developing these models requires
multidisciplinary approaches that take into account the three dimensions
- ecological, economic and social - of sustainability....
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The Climate Focus side event, entitled
“The Forest Declaration Assessment - How to achieve the 2030 goals in
the Congo Basin” took place on 5 July 2022 during the 19th Meeting of
Parties of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership. Following a brief
overview of the project, five regional experts took the floor in a
string of presentations on a variety of forestry-related topics.
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The general context of forest
management and conservation in central Africa… The socio-economic
context of forest management and conservation in central Africa. The 4
key elements which have most impacts on forests management and
conservation in central Africa… young population and strong population
growth…
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The high-level meeting on the
international financial architecture for biodiversity was held on July 5
and 6, 2022 in Libreville, Gabon. The panel was composed of CAFI, AfDB,
AFD and the EU on July 5, and KFW and Winrock on July 6. The finding is
that there is chaos in the actions of donors to the forests of the
Congo Basin. In the Congo Basin there are 35 funding initiatives in
total, including a concern for coordination. It is a question of
reflecting on the best coordination mechanism and also on the PES and
their indicators; to look at what are the mechanisms to reassure the
private sector...
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This report places the Congo Basin’s
Forest ecosystems in a global context characterised by debates that will
guide the management of the entire world's tropical forests over the
coming decades. It also addresses topical issues such as peatland
management and questions about the relationship between the management
of biodiversity resources and the emergence or re-emergence of zoonotic
diseases, of which COVID-19 has particularly affected the context of its
writing.
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Two decades later this platform has continued to pursue the goals it set out to achieve at the outset, including clear and concerted leadership in mobilizing both technical and financial partners, action to address critical threats to biodiversity and forests, such as illegal logging, unsustainable resource extraction and wildlife trafficking, and full participation in efforts to adapt to and combat climate change.
Read more about the project...
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Co-organised by the Congo Basin Forest
Partnership (CBFP), this meeting is geared towards finding common and
sustainable solutions for the preservation of the Congo Basin forests.
There are many financing promises for these forests. However, according
to participants, they do not always serve the right purpose.
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Yaoundé, 26 July 2022. Mrs. Esso Rosy,
vice-president of the follow-up of NSAF's recommendations has
successfully carried the voice of Rejefac's young leaders on the theme:
green entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable development, during
the visit of the French President H.E. Emmanuel Macron during his visit
to Cameroon.
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4/7/2022 - With the support of the GIZ -
COMIFAC regional project, REPALEAC convened in Libreville to actively
participate in the #MOP19. The aim of this meeting was to explore
approaches for implementing the Glasgow Declaration for indigenous
peoples.
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Analysis of this review underlines the conclusions of Libreville CBFP Mop 19th
Stream 1a of Event: Emissions from the mining of minerals needed to
manufacture EVs needs to be offset at source if they are to have a net
positive impact on climate change. Many of the minerals are going to be
coming from the Congo Basin.You may find this review of the potential
climate impacts of the fast-growing market for Electric Vehicles (EVs)
on the demand for minerals that are needed – particularly for the
construction of their batteries...
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The announcement was made by the
European Union in June 2022. NaturAfrica is part of the Green Pact for
Europe's overall biodiversity strategy to protect wildlife and
ecosystems, capture economic opportunities for local communities and
indigenous peoples (LCAPs) in green sectors, and strengthen the
participation of these communities and peoples in EU programs that
support biodiversity.
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