From Paris to Belem: 10 years of innovative solutions in the service of the Paris Agreement

1. The continued pursuit of mitigation efforts is critical to tackling climate change, while adaptation to its effects remains a key challenge to reduce loss and damage.

The FFEM thus promotes:

• Nature in cities, by sharing lessons learned from pilot projects in Latin America, notably in Santa Fe and Guatemala City.
• Eco-construction, through a series of three recently launched webinars with AFD on sector standardization, training at all levels, and image change, aimed at amplifying impact.
• Sustainable urban mobility, via its partnership with Mobilize Your City and the publication of a booklet of recommendations based on six mobility plans implemented in African cities, to foster more resilient, inclusive, and low-carbon territories.
• Coastal ecosystem restoration (mangroves, seagrass beds, coral reefs), which is essential to strengthen coastal resilience to sea-level rise, protect marine biodiversity, and support the livelihoods of local communities.
• The fight against deforestation, by promoting the development of sustainable models for land management and agricultural and forestry value chains that reconcile forest conservation, traceability, inclusion of local communities, and socio-economic development.

2. Mobilizing appropriate financing—particularly through inclusive carbon finance with multiple co-benefits—remains a major challenge.
   To address it, the FFEM has published a guidance note on carbon finance for project developers, as well as a capitalization report based on experiences in Guinea-Bissau, Colombia, Mozambique, and Madagascar (REDD+), and on mangrove restoration projects in Costa Rica, Benin, Senegal, India, and Indonesia, where these ecosystems play a crucial role in mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and community resilience.

These initiatives demonstrate that integrated solutions can generate joint benefits for the climate, biodiversity, and local communities.

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Faced with the scale and interdependence of today’s environmental challenges, the FFEM advocates an integrated approach that simultaneously addresses the different dimensions of the planetary crisis — climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and the degradation of land and oceans — in order to maximize synergies between actions and avoid fragmented responses.
This approach makes it possible to design global and coherent solutions that respond simultaneously to the challenges of climate, nature, and development.

Together with its partners, the FFEM works to:
• Preserve and restore terrestrial and marine ecosystems, which are vital reservoirs of carbon and biodiversity;
• Rely on nature-based solutions to strengthen both climate mitigation and adaptation;
• Develop sustainable production models that are low-carbon and resilient to environmental shocks;
• Reduce pollution at the source—whether plastic, chemical, or organic—to protect ecosystems and human health;
• Support science, innovation, and knowledge sharing in the service of a just and inclusive ecological transition.

In Belém, at the heart of the Amazon, COP30 highlights the inseparable link between climate, nature, and people. This has been the very foundation of the FFEM’s action for the past 30 years: demonstrating that the ecological transition relies on concrete solutions, co-designed with local stakeholders and delivering environmental, social, and economic co-benefits.