Thematic

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  • 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

The Dynafac collective publishes brochures presenting its projects, and technical guides for sustainable forest management

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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 technical guides on wildlife, growing tropical trees and sylviculture.
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Project

Signature of the COMBO+ project to halt net loss of biodiversity in six African and Asian countries

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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 impacts, achieved in just 4 years, this second phase aims to consolidate the operability of Avoid - Reduce - Compensate and extend the approach to two Asian countries.
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“Our strategy is already bearing fruit, and testifies to our role as precursors”: interview with Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann

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At the mid-point of the 2019-2022 strategic cycle, FFEM Secretary-General describes the positive results of a successful first half of the period. She discusses the FFEM approach and precursor role, centred around innovation and the dissemination of solutions, and stresses the need for continuing to strengthen the cross-cutting nature of the FFEM’s interventions to build the resilience of ecosystems and populations.
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“The planet needs horizontal instruments like the FFEM”: interview with Monique Barbut

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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, she has since led the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and other organisations. Here, she sets out her vision of current environmental challenges and the role the FFEM is able to play.
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Conference

Closing seminar of the South expert plants sustainable development programme

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The SEP2D programme is reaching completion, and there will be a closing seminar 7-8 April. This is the time to assess the programme’s activity and outline the prospects for the conservation and enhancement of tropical plant biodiversity. Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann, the FFEM’s Secretary-General, will be on the panel “What are the financing strategies for biodiversity conservation?“ which is taking place on 8 April between 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm
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Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann interviewed by the GEF: “Delivering paths to a sustainable recovery”

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Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann is Secretary General of the FFEM and serves as France’s Alternate Council Member at the Global Environment Facility. In an interview on the GEF website, she reflects on the connections between biodiversity protection and climate change action and shares insights from France’s decades of experience supporting integrated solutions that prioritize both environmental protection and economic development in partnership with the GEF
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Feedback from the “Biodiversity modelling and scenarios” programme

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Results from the “Biodiversity modelling and scenarios” programme, set up by the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB) and backed by the FFEM, were shared during a feedback session held on 15 January 2021. An opportunity to assess the impact of 5 projects aimed at highlighting biodiversity issues across different biotopes.
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In the media

The FoFauPopU project featured on “La Terre au Carré”

The FoFauPopU project featured on “La Terre au Carré”
Broadcaster France Inter dedicated an entire programme on La Terre au Carré to the topic of imported deforestation, interviewing 2 FFEM partners: Sabrina Krief, primatologist at France’s Natural History Museum, who is running the FoFauPopU project in Uganda (supported by the FFEM), and Nicolas Salaün, heading up the Small-Scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) on the French committee of the IUCN, also supported by the FFEM.
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