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Claude Garcia: “How to use a game to fight deforestation”
This summer has seen forest fires proliferate across California and Siberia. In the Amazon basin, where conditions are aggravated by climate change, clearance for agriculture is the primary cause. Som...
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WEEECAM project featured on Telesud TV
The project for sustainable management of waste electrical and electronic equipment in Cameroon (WEEECAM) was featured in a report on Telesud, the French language pan-African television network
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Shark Fin Bay project featured in Ouest-France news
Reporting on the FFEM financing agreement for the project to restore coral reefs in Shark Fin Bay in the Philippines, Ouest France highlights awareness-raising among the local communities
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Mauritania, caught between economic development and biodiversity conservation: we look at two of Mauritania’s ...
Two studies have just been published, looking at the Diawling park and the Banc d’Arguin National Park. These two Mauritanian national parks receive finance from the FFEM to protect their biodiversity
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Sébastien Treyer: “The crisis is pushing us to search for an ever-wider transformational impact.”
Sébastien Treyer, President of the FFEM’s Scientific & Technical Committee and also Director General of the French Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (Iddri), considers...
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An innovative National Park model for the conservation of great apes in Cameroon
On 30 October 2020, the AFD signed a financing agreement on behalf of the French Facility for Global Environment with the Electricity Development Corporation, the public agency in charge of managing r...
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“Underpinning action and efficiency to put impetus behind current and future projects”: interview with Clément...
In creating a role dedicated to capitalisation in September 2020, the FFEM identified this as a stronger strategic direction for the coming years. Clémentine Dardy, who holds the position, takes us th...
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“The planet needs horizontal instruments like the FFEM”: interview with Monique Barbut
Now President of WWF France, Monique Barbut was already playing a key role during the Earth Summit negotiations in Rio back in 1992. The very first Secretary-General of the FFEM at its foundation, sh...
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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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“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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The Dynafac collective publishes brochures presenting its projects, and technical guides for sustainable fores...
The Dynafac collective runs projects supported by FFEM to improve forestry management and development in the Central African forests. It publishes a brochure setting out its programmes, along with tec...
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The Shark Fin Bay project in Le petit journal: the Sulubaaï Foundation working to restore coral reefs
In an interview in the online Le petit journal, Frédéric Tardieu, founder of the Sulubaaï Foundation which is running the Shark Fin Bay initiative explains how the project, which is supported by the F...
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Signature of the COMBO+ project to halt net loss of biodiversity in six African and Asian countries
As from 2021, the NGO WCS will be financed and supported by FFEM and AFD during the COMBO+ project. Following on from the COMBO project, which FFEM supported from 2015 to 2019, and its remarkable impa...
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FFEM has published new information brochures on its themed action areas
In january 2023, the FFEM published its new strategy 2023-2026 and defined its new priority themes for the environment and development. FFEM has since published five brochures showcasing its various a...
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Guinea inaugurates PEHGUI, the country’s first solar mini-network
On 17 June 2021 the PEHGUI project (Petite Électricité Hybride - Small Hybrid Electricity) supported by the FFEM since 2015, was inaugurated in the presence of the Guinea authorities and international...
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The FFEM supports measures to combat plastic pollution in the Indian Ocean
On 9 July 2021, the FFEM signed a financing agreement for the ExPLOI (Indian Ocean Plastic Expedition) project to assist efforts to reduce and recycle plastic waste in the ocean, through the circular...
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Tropical Forest & Rural Development (TF-RD), a 2021 Equator Prize winner
Tropical Forest & Rural Development, a long-term partner of the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) supported by the FFEM, is one of the 10 winners of the 2021 Equator Prize. Organised by the Unit...
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The FFEM’s 2020 – 2021 Activity Report
Midway through its 2019 - 2022 strategic cycle, the FFEM is publishing its latest Activity Report covering the full range of its actions in 2020 and 2021
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The FFEM playing an active role at the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in Marseille, from 3 to 11 September...
The French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) will be working with its partners ahead of the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress, to be held 3 - 11 September 2021 in Marseille. Organised every four...
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