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Linking green and grey infrastructures to strengthen coastal resilience to climate events

In the Philippines, extreme climatic events are becoming increasingly frequent and intense. To reinforce the resilience of this small island State, the FFEM is supporting Conservation International in...

Innovative management and financing for the biodiversity of Grand Bangweulu

The Kasanka Trust Limited (KTL) is an NGO responsible for managing the Kasanka National Park and the Kafinda game management area. With support from the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) a...

Encouraging the private sector to participate in biodiversity conservation

Active contribution to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals by the South American, Caribbean and African conservation trust funds (CTFs) is essential. This project, sponsored by the RedLAC and CAFÉ...

Ocean activities to preserve the biodiversity of the Northern Mozambique Channel

Subject to pressures from oil and gas companies, the area around the Northern Mozambique Channel (NoCaMo) is also threatened by maritime traffic and climate change. The FFEM is supporting the NoCaMo p...

Towards financial and institutional sustainability

This multi-regional project (Africa-Latin America-Caribbean) plans to strengthen the international network of Conservation Finance Alliance, which is involved in the financing of conservation. It is a...

Experimental Platform for the Management of Rural Territories in Legal Amazonia (PETRA)

Developing a platform for support, exchanges and environmental, social and economic observation for research and sustainable development in the north-west region of Mato Grosso and Brazil’s Amazonian...

Integration of the tropical wood industry in Central and West Africa into the FLEGT and REDD+ mechanisms

Promoting sustainable tropical forest management in the private forestry sector and socioeconomic development in timber producing countries

Mangroves Initiative - Philippines

Building coastal resilience for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in small island territories by integrating green and grey infrastructure

World Mother Earth Day: Producing Differently—Fair Trade in Support of Biodiversity

Every year, International Mother Earth Day reminds us of the urgent need to take action in the face of environmental imbalances that affect millions of people and living species around the world. Defo...

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Ecological improvement of lime production

Economically viable lime production, using environmentally-friendly procedures based on a system for heating limestone through the recovery of agricultural waste (cashew nut shells – cashews)

FISP Climat - GREENHEAT: Energy creation using solid matter from wastewater and faecal sludge from latrines and septic tanks

The projects aims to transform and value solid matter from wastewater and faecal sludge from latrines and septic tanks.

Developing a model to use sugar cane chaff as a renewable energy source on Mauritius.

On Mauritius, almost 50% of electricity is produced by three cogeneration power plants. One of these plants, operated by Terragen Ltd, is leading a project supported by the FFEM which aims to make bet...

Kick-starting a private investment dynamic for low-power renewables in Cameroon

Despite the best intentions of the public authorities for several years, to date no private investment project in low-power renewable energies has seen light of day in Cameroon. In supporting the crea...

A community solar-powered lighting installation to facilitate access to electricity in Casamance

Although Senegal has great solar potential, in 2016 only 56.5% of the population had access to electricity. With financial support from the FFEM, Sunna Design has installed community solar-powered lig...

Extending access to energy and solar technologies in the rural environments

The rural populations of Vanuatu and Indonesia frequently lack basic access to electricity, in particular for lighting, phone charging or electrically-powered crop mills. In supporting this project to...

FISP Climat - Energy optimisation of the Laiterie du Berger processing plant

Supporting Paramint Energy Africa in order to provide an energy solution that covers the electricity and thermal needs of the Laiterie du Berger processing plant as part of its yoghurt production indu...

Desalination of seawater using solar energy

Water supply is a major problem for small island communities. To address this, the solar-energy seawater desalination technology developed by Mascara allows drinking water to be produced at low cost a...

Making coffee growers more resilient (PUR CAFE)

To restore degraded ecosystems and improve the resilience of small coffee growers to climate change, since 2019 the FFEM has been supporting an agroforestry project led by the “PUR Projet” enterprise....

Support and fortify fishing activities in Senegal

An activity essential to socio-economic balance in Senegal, fishing suffers the full impact of climate change. With the support of the FFEM, Valorem plans to test out a solar-powered cold room solutio...