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

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...

World Water Week: the FFEM publishes a new guide on freshwater ecosystems

The FFEM has published a new guide on freshwater ecosystems to further extend its series on marine ecosystems. With mounting pressure around water resources, this publication on eutrophisation and cya...

IN NIGER, SATELLITES ARE HELPING TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION

The Sahel Wood Energy project, supported by the Agence française de Développement (AFD) and the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) is committed to preserving the Sahel’s forests through bet...

The latest on the SWM programme and Ressource project

The SWM (Sustainable Wildlife Management) Programme has just published its 9th newsletter. The work is now entering its final phase.

Loubassa’a tidal stream generator was commissioned a year ago, harnessing the energy of the Congo River for so...

The Essential Services Unit (ESU) for Loubassa village, located on M’bamou island in the Republic of the Congo, was brought on stream on 15 October 2021. The ESU's special technical feature is that i...

COP 15: "Protecting the Living World for a Peace Pact with Nature"

After COP27 on Climate, COP15 on Biodiversity begins in Montreal from December 7 to December 19, 2022, with the goal of establishing a global action plan for biodiversity — an issue closely linked to...

Agroecology and adaptation to climate change: Review of the AVACLIM workshop

On 11 and 12 January, a review workshop was held in Montpellier for the AVACLIM project supported by the FFEM and GEF-FAO for the Centre for International Actions and Achievements (Centre d’actions et...

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Aquatic ecosystems

The FFEM publishes its new 2023-2026 strategy

Re-financed to the tune of €132 million for 2023-2026, the FFEM has a new strategy and is setting out its priority directions. This new FFEM strategy is the result of close consultation with its memb...

Look back on the FFEM experience-sharing workshop on Marine Protected Areas held on 1 February in Vancouver

On the fringe of the 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5), held 3 - 9 February in Vancouver, the FFEM Secretariat and the French Biodiversity Agency organised an experience-shari...

End of four-year period 2019-2022; strategy for 2023-2026: interview with Christophe Bories, Chair of the FFEM...

Chair of the FFEM Steering Committee, Christophe Bories, looks back on the period 2019-2022 and its defining moments, and comments on the challenges the FFEM should address over the next four years....

Spotlight on the promising initial results from the “PRM2” project, uniting a concerted regional approach with...

17 March saw the holding of the second Steering Committee meeting for the project “Preserve the biodiversity of Mabi-Yaya & Strengthen the socio-economic development of the Mé” (PRM2) aiming to promot...

The Chimanimani conservation area: moving towards a sustainable management model

To mark the International Day for Biological Diversity, we provide an update on the Chimanimani project. This project has been supported by the FFEM and AFD for the past 4 years to work on sustainable...

Working towards a Global Plastics Treaty: showcasing FFEM-supported projects for sustainable management of pla...

From 29 May to 2 June 2023, Paris is hosting the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), which is aiming to develop an international legally binding instrument to end pla...

The BRIDGE project Steering Committee (COPIL): a key moment for international cooperation in support of biodiv...

The BRIDGE project Steering Committee (COPIL) was held in the FFEM’s offices from 19 to 21 April 2023. The event brought together all the project partners for a progress report and discussions on the...

The FFEM presents its latest capitalisations: overviews of nature in a Latin American city, and the forests of...

At a round table organised on 13 June in Paris, the FFEM revealed its latest capitalisations highlighting two key themes: nature in a Latin American city and the sustainable management of Central Afri...

The FFEM and its partners are committed to preserving indigenous territories in the Amazon region

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, celebrated annually on 9 August, provides an important opportunity to highlight the challenges facing these communities all over the world. Wit...

The 185 member countries gathered for the GEF Assembly adopt two key agreements to protect biodiversity worldw...

Representatives from 185 countries gathered in Vancouver, Canada for the Seventh Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) from 22 to 26 August 2023. Marking a globally significant event, the...

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