Through our funding, the FFEM aims to encourage innovative, useful, and effective approaches. To do so, we support pilot projects to test solutions and learn lessons and since 1994 : €490 M committed out of €4.5 billion in total project budget 397 projects...

An activity essential to socio-economic balance in Senegal, fishing suffers the full impact of climate change. With the support of the FFEM, Valorem plans to test out a solar-powered cold room solution in the port of Fass Boye, which currently lacks refrigeration facilities.

In Bolivia, the CIPCA NGO is promoting sustainable family-run agriculture to respond to the challenges of climate change, biodiversity degradation and food security. The initiative, supported by the FFEM, seeks to test the effectiveness of agroecological models while assuring their implementation by promoting a participative and multi-disciplinary approach.

The French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) has been working to reconcile the conservation of the environment and sustainable development in developing and emerging countries.

For nearly 30 years, it encourages innovative initiatives and pilot projects that respond to global environment challenges and aim for environmental, social, and economic benefits. Its objective is to test solutions and learn lessons from them, and then to facilitate their dissemination and deployment in other places and/or on a broader scale. The distinctive features of the FFEM are innovation and replicability of action.

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.

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 de réalisations internationales - CARI).

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-makers. The aim is to minimise the climate impact of high-emitting sectors - such as passenger transport, electricity, cement - and land use - in Mexico and Brazil. To mark the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the project sponsors recall its innovative nature.

To better understand the work of the FFEM, we invite you to meet Xavier Debade, who joined FFEM in July 2023 as a project manager focusing on forest conservation and ecosystem restoration. As the largest reservoir of terrestrial biodiversity, forests play a crucial role in climate regulation.

With his expertise, Xavier helps advance one of FFEM’s key priorities: in line with France’s international commitments, we aim to support zero-deforestation initiatives, the development of land, soil, and forest restoration models, and the production of data on the performance of agroecological, agroforestry, and forestry systems.

On 10th April, the French Fund for the Global Environment (FFEM) celebrated three decades of pioneering initiatives in the service of life in Paris at the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Surrounded by its institutional guardians, its historical partners and many project holders, the FFEM wanted to make this anniversary much more than a simple commemorative moment. It was an opportunity for introspection, transmission and co-construction with all the forces that have built and continue this “so special financial institution”, as highlighted by Barbara Pompili, new Ambassador for the Environment.