In Central Africa, several projects have been developed under the Strategic Program on Sustainable Forest Management for the Congo Basin. The program was built around three main focal points: the conservation of biodiversity hotspots, sustainable forest management outside protected areas, and the reinforcement of capacities supporting innovative financing mechanisms.
On Saturday, March 31 at 8:30pm EST, hundreds of millions of people, businesses, and governments around the world will unite to celebrate Earth Hour by switching off lighting and electronics to raise awareness for climate change and other sustainability issues.
Cambodia is an agriculture-based society where some 72 percent of its 13.4 million people are rice farmers. For generations, rice farming has often been subjected to the forces of nature like floods and droughts.
The LDCF-funded climate change adaptation project aims to counter the potential agriculture risks caused by climate change by working with the local research institutions and farmers in testing and promoting rice varieties that can stand with drought or floods up to 12 days.
The Global Environment Facility has a strategy to invest up to $1 billion in the world’s forests in pursuit of multiple environmental and economic benefits from improved management of all types of forest to the strengthening of sustainable livelihoods for people who depend on forest resources.
KIGALI, Rwanda – On February 28, Ms. Marisa Lago, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development, toured a project led by women and financed by the Global Environment Facility’s Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP) in Rwanda. The project is introducing alternative energy sources to wood fuel as a response to climate change and deforestation while improving the livelihoods of the community.
Mobilizing the community and promoting proactive participation in shaping the country’s public policies, to account for sustainable development, is SGP’s ultimate endeavor for Uruguay.
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Montreal, 19 January 2012– For the first time, local authorities and representatives of government met in Montpellier from 17 to 19 January 2012 to implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, including the 20 Aichi Targets, in the Mediterranean region.
