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PUBLICATION OF AN ONERC REPORT: “NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION”
The publisher Documentation française is today publishing an information and recommendations report from the French National Observatory on the Effects of Climate Change (ONERC) for France's Prime Min...
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JANIQUE ETIENNE TALKS TO THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ABOUT NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATI...
Janique Etienne, FFEM head of Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience projects, took part in the French parliamentary think-tank session “Combating climate change and its effects” on 12 December 2019. During the...
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Event:Ocean-based solutions for climate action - feedback from the field and contributions from marine science...
A wide range of ocean-based solutions exist to limit climate change and its impacts on marine ecosystems, both in terms of mitigation and adaptation. The contributions of science and feedback from fie...
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“Being able to share experiences makes us more able to innovate” - Zdenka Piskulich
Over the last twenty years, the RedLAC network of Latino-Caribbean conservation trust funds has served as a launchpad for innovative thinking about financing mechanisms. In bringing trust funds tog...
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A LOOK AT THE INNOVATIVE NATURE OF ‘PROJECT RESSOURCE’ WITH CONSTANCE CORBIER-BARTHAUX
Between 1960 and 2000, the number of water birds in the great Sahel wetlands declined by about 40%. Project RESSOURCE aims to significantly improve living standards for the local populations of these...
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Libération: “Giving deforestation in Colombia the chop”
First published in Libération on 21 August 2019, this article revisits the sustainable forestry planning project in the Colombian Pacific region, supported by the FFEM, the EU and ONF Andina (French N...
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Solar energy-powered motorbikes in Uganda: signature of the financing agreement for the Zembo project
On Tuesday 23 July, Zembo co-founder Etienne Saint-Sernin and FFEM Secretary-General Stéphanie Bougizes-Eschmann signed a financing agreement for €600,000.
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Publication of The FFEM at a glance: find out all about the FFEM
With 120 million euros of financial resources being allowed for the 2019-2022 period, the FFEM has just renewed its strategy and defined new priority guidelines. What are the new themes covered by the...
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The FFEM launches a new call for project proposals on the “environmentally sound management of chemicals and h...
The FFEM launches a new call for project proposals on the “environmentally sound management of chemicals and hazardous waste” in developing countries.
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WORLD OCEAN DAY: THE FFEM LAUNCHES l'INITIATIVE MANGROVE
For the World Ocean Day, the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) is launching l’Initiative Mangroves.
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Event: How to conciliate biodiversity and development in protected areas?
To what extent can protected areas help conserve biodiversity while contributing to the socio-economic development of local populations? The FFEM and AFD will present on Monday 13 the results of a pro...
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The FFEM publishes its 2019-2022 strategy
With 120 million euros of financial resources being allowed for the 2019-2022 period, the FFEM sets a new strategy and defines its priority guidelines.
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“It’s essential to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of the solutions tested”: interview with WACA proj...
The WACA project tests soft nature-based solutions on pilot sites in four countries. At the first Steering Committee meeting held in Dakar on 12 March 2019, we interviewed three of the programme partn...
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RedLAC annual meeting: Innovation at the center of reflection
Nearly 140 environmental fund representatives from Latin American RedLAC and African CAFE networks were welcomed for the 20th RedLAC meeting from October 29th to November 1st in Santa Cruz de la Sierr...
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Tara back from Pacific expedition with startling data: motley map of reef health
After two and a half years navigating the Pacific, where over 40% of our planet’s coral reefs are found, the schooner Tara returned on October 27. Led by the Tara Expeditions Foundation, the Tara Paci...
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The FFEM presents itself to innovative French SMEs for the climate
As part of a meeting held at Business France on October 19th, the FFEM, alongside the Agence française de développement and the Ministry of the Economy, presented its financing tools for innovative co...
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The FFEM exchanges on its new strategic orientations
On Thursday 11 October 2018, the FFEM presented the proposed orientations of its 2019-2022 strategy, currently being drafted, to civil society organizations.
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Private Sector initiative in the area of adaptation to climate change: launch of the 5th FISP-Climat call for ...
FFEM is launching the 5th call for projects for its FISP-Climat program, to support the private sector in its innovations in the area of climate change, launched for the benefit of developing countrie...
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Support for Climate Innovations from the Private Sector in Developing Countries: Launch of the 4th Call for Pr...
The FFEM is launching the 4th call for projects under its FISP-Climat program to support the private sector in developing climate change-related innovations initiated for the benefit of developing cou...
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