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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...

Datawall of the 2020 - 2021 FFEM activity report

The FFEM invites you to discover its 2020 - 2021 activity report through a new digital medium, a datawall gathering all the testimonies present in the report and the major news published on our websit...

Intersecting capitalisation of the Small-scale Initiatives Programmes (Programme Petites Initiatives - PPIs) A...

Since 2006, the Small-scale Initiatives Programmes (PPIs) have supported African civil society in conserving nature and improving local living conditions. Launched by the FFEM in 2006 and supervised b...

The FFEM publishes a new capitalisation on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)

This publication is the first component of a new FFEM series on capitalisation and looks back at 40 projects financed and supported by the FFEM in MPAs over the last 25 years, with a view to learning...

Signing of an agreement between WCS and CIB-OLAM for the conservation of biodiversity in the northern Congo

On 8 August 2021, the Government of the Republic of Congo, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB), a subsidiary of OLAM International, signed a trilater...

Take a look at the collection of 8 FFEM guides on aquatic ecosystems

Following on from previous works on marine ecosystems in climate regulation*, the FFEM is expanding its collection with 7 other scientific guides*, These guides evaluate the current knowledge of vario...

Signing of the Plast’ile project to combat plastic pollution in the Mediterranean

On 9 September 2021, as part of the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress, the FFEM has signed a financing agreement with the NGO SMILO to support the island pilot site of Kerkennah in Tunisia in impleme...

Guiana's Amazonian Park Cooperation Project: publication of new thematic overviews

Within the framework of the RENFORESAP project, coordinated by the Amazonian Park in partnership with Suriname and Guyana, whose innovative approach was supported by the FFEM, thematic overviews focus...

Sealing a public-private partnership for sustainable excellent cocoa and zero deforestation

On 12 October 2021, the FFEM appeared alongside the French Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition, the company Kaoka and its partners at a press conference to formalise their partnership aim...

Event to showcase the FFEM’s expertise

On 16 November 2021, the FFEM presented the challenges and perspectives from its Evaluation and Capitalisation strategy using evaluations of 3 capitalisation approaches from previous projects. After o...

Record level of financial commitments in 2021

By the end of 2021, the FFEM had achieved record-level financial commitments of €30m across 16 projects.

The Deng Deng project cited in the Cameroon daily l’Economie

The daily l’Economie featured the signing ceremony for the great apes conservation project in the Deng Deng National Park, supported by the FFEM.

The FFEM takes part in the first virtual collaborative RedLAC-CAFÉ congress

The FFEM was delighted to take part in the very first virtual congress of the RedLAC and Café Environmental Funds, held on 6 - 8 October 2020.

A forum for conservation of the great apes

In November 2020, the Alliance for the Conservation of Great Apes in Central Africa (AGSAC) organised a forum around the topic of “Local initiatives to protect the great apes of the Cameroon forests a...

Anniversary of the Paris Agreement: focus on the ACT-DDP project

The ACT-DDP project, backed by the FFEM, guides companies as they develop strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and coordinates dialogue between the private sector and national decision-maker...

French Foundation for Biodiversity Research Young Researcher Prize - winners announced

On Thursday 10 October 2020, the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB) unveiled the winners of its Young Researcher Prize. The FFEM selected Kanto Razanamalala of the French National Resea...

One Planet Summit: the FoFauPopU project revisited

The fourth edition of the One Planet Summit has as its subject the preservation of biodiversity. The FoFauPopU project, financed by the FFEM, particularly echoes one of the sub-themes, the protection...

Strengthening pastoral units in Senegal

As part of a project supported by the FFEM, Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF) is publishing two manuals on best management practice for natural resources in the silvopastoral area of th...

The Moringa annual report is now online

The Paysage Forestier Nord Congo project is now underway

This project, launched on 17 December 2020, uses the Landscape Approach to preserve biodiversity and sustainably manage natural resources, further advancing the region’s socio-economic development.