Thematic

  • -Tout-
  • Energy transition and resilient cities
  • Sustainable forests and agricultural lands
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change
  • Product life cycle, pollution and waste
  • AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
  • Aquatic ecosystems
  • Innovative financing of biodiversity
  • FOREST AND AGRICULTURAL LAND
  • Coastal and high seas management
  • POLLUTION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
  • Innovative processes
  • Protection et valorisation de la biodiversité
  • Sustainable urban territories
In the media

The restoration of coral reefs: LeMonde reports on the Shark Fin Bay project

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Since 2020, the FFEM has supported the Sulubaaï Foundation in restoring the coral reefs in Shark Fin Bay, alongside the local people and villages, on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Palawan is classified as the most important among the top ten coral reef biodiversity hotspots in the world, being both the richest and the most threatened site on the planet. LeMonde has just published a report on the project.

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In the media

The Small-scale Initiatives Programme on RFI

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In this edition of "C’est pas du vent", Paul Estève, head of the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) at the French Committee of the IUCN, explains the programme’s action principles. Since 2006, this FFEM-supported programme has been helping African civil society organisations (CSOs) by financing small-scale projects for biodiversity conservation and combating climate change.
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Marc Daubrey: “The FFEM must retain its targeted approach and apply it to the African continent’s new challenges.”

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Marc Daubrey, the first member of the Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) to represent the African continent, joined this consultative body in January 2022. The STC guides the FFEM’s strategic directions, ensuring the relevance of our financed projects and contributing to their monitoring and evaluation. In this interview Marc Daubrey, who is also CEO of climate engineering consultancy Green Invest Africa and founder of the NGO Impactum, shares his vision for the FFEM and the role the Facility could play in relation to the major challenges facing the African continent.
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FFEM News

The Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI): new call for project proposals

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For its 6th phase, the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) is launching a call for project proposals open to new emerging organisations that have not previously benefited from the PPI. This FFEM programme has been supporting African civil society organisations (CSOs) since 2006, by financing small-scale biodiversity conservation and climate change projects.
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Project

When field experience empowers access to electricity

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The field experience of some NGOs and private enterprises involved in rural electrification via mini grids has proven very enlightening to funding partners. The French Development Agency (AFD), the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe) and the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) capitalise the learnings of these actors to make their own approach to the sector more efficient.
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Event

Event to present the FFEM’s new 2023-2026 strategy

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On 27 June 2022, the FFEM - alongside the National Council for Development and International Solidarity (CNDSI) - presented the issues and prospects documented in its new 2023-2026 strategy.
The session was arranged to receive initial reactions from the FFEM’s partners, in order to finalise this 4-yearly task.
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Conversation

Patrice Burger : “Agroecology must be on the agenda if it’s to become a tool recommended by the COP”

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The 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification starts this Monday 9 May in Abidjan, one week after publication of the latest UNCCD report. According to the report, 40% of land is now degraded with one in two people being affected by the phenomenon. Solutions do exist however, and the agenda of this COP focuses heavily on adapting to droughts and the transition toward sustainable agriculture. Patrice Berger, President and co-founder of the NGO CARI (Centre d’actions et de réalisations internationales - Centre for International Actions and Achievements) emphasises the importance of this 15th desertification COP and the steps he is taking to propel agroecology to the top of the negotiation agenda, including through his presentation of the outcomes from the AVACLIM project.
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In the media

Le Monde features the success of the first sustainable cocoa initiative In Côte d’Ivoire

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Le Monde has published a piece on an organic fair trade cocoa initiative in Côte d’Ivoire, showcasing the Société coopérative équitable du Bandama (SCEB) with its plans to extend organic production methods across the country. There were major obstacles facing the world's leading cocoa bean producing country, where the pursuit of yield can lure cocoa farmers away from sustainable production methods. SCEB’s achievement is part of the extensive “ÉQUITÉ” programme co-financed by the FFEM and AFD to expand fair trade throughout West Africa.
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Event

Meet the FFEM at the World Forestry Congress

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The XV World Forestry Congress opens on 2 May in Seoul, bringing together the leading players in the forestry sector to assess the current state of forests and their future. With the theme of “Building a Green, Healthy and Resilient Future with Forests”, this edition includes a full week of themed discussions, including sessions addressing “Managing and communicating forest information, data and knowledge”, where the FFEM will be speaking.

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In the media

Afrik21: An article on the FFEM’s latest collaboration with the PRCM

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The green economy and sustainable development media outlet, Afrik21, looked at one of the projects recently financed by the FFEM. On 29 March, the FFEM and the Regional Partnership for the Conservation of Coastal and Marine Areas (PRCM) cemented their commitment by signing the RESILAO project to protect coastal ecosystems in West Africa, pledging €2.6 million.
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Event Project

The FoFauPopU project : a biological study reveals the impact of pollution on chimpanzees

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On this World Health Day, come back to the "One Health" approach with a new study by the National Museum of Natural History. As part of the FoFauPopU project supported by the FFEM, this study evaluates the impact of environmental pollution on wildlife, and in particular, on chimpanzees. To achieve this, the Sebitioli Chimpanzee Project’s research team employed a biosurveillance method on chimpanzee pelts that is normally used for human hair.
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Event

PRCM Forum: signature of the Resilao project for the protection of the West African coastal regions

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On 28 March 2022, in a side event at the 10th edition of the Regional Coast and Marine Forum, the FFEM signed a financing agreement with the Regional Partnership for the Conservation of the Coastal and Marine Areas (PRCM), the Forum organiser. This signature marks the start of the RESILAO project, which seeks to develop innovative local initiatives for the West African coastal regions.

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The FFEM is at the PRCM Forum in Senegal

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The 10th edition of the Regional Coastal and Marine Forum (PRCM) opens today at Saly, in Senegal, bringing together the sector’s key players and decision-makers. This edition is dedicated to "The health of the oceans, a challenge for the sustainable development of West African coastal countries." The FFEM is an event partner and its projects will be showcased in a number of side events.

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World Water Forum: the WaSAf project publishes its guide to freshwater ecosystems

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The 9th World Water Forum has just opened in Dakar, in Senegal. The international water and water treatment community will be gathered there until 26 March. It’s an opportunity for the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM), the Agence française de développement (AFD) and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) to share the results of the WaSAf research programme.
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Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury and Jean-Louis Doucet: “The Central African forests aren’t all the same”

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Today, forestry management faces multiple challenges in terms of adapting to climate change, biodiversity preservation and sustainable forestry exploitation. If the development plan is the primary answer for sustainable management of the forests, the countries of Central Africa face a major challenge: renewal of stocks of the species exploited. For Jean-Louis Doucet, Professor at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech and Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, researcher at Cirad, reinforcing the sustainability of exploitation as part of forestry development is essential. On World Forest Day, they tell us about their work as part of the DynAfFor and P3FAC projects, supported by the FFEM, and their resulting recommendations for better management of the Central African forests.
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