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Abating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Obsolete RAC equipment in West Africa
Domestic refrigerators and air conditioning can be highly emissive of greenhouse gases. To reduce their impact on the climate, the FFEM is supporting the Agora project, sponsored by the UNDP. The goal...
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Protecting the Amazon forests and strengthening communities in Colombia and Peru
The project aims to conserve 77,318 hectares of forest in the Colombo-Peruvian Amazon through knowledge and conservation of biodiversity and improvement of the quality of life and well-being of famili...
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Video : IN FOCUS : Carbon Finance: A powerful tool for a sustainable future
The project evaluation and capitalization processes of the FFEM are essential to highlight technical knowledge, science, local knowledge and innovative practices for future action. The multidimensi...
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THE WEEECAM PROJECT, CO-FUNDED BY THE FFEM, IS NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 CONVERGENCES AWARD
At the 2018 Convergences Forum, the WEEECAM project was nominated for the Convergences Award, which since 2011 has recognized projects by social, public, and private partners committed to a fair and s...
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Protecting the World's Small Islands: A Collaborative Photography Exhibition at the Paris Zoological Park
The FFEM has joined forces with the Conservatoire du Littoral and numerous other international partners to create the exhibition “Small Islands: Pioneers of Sustainable Development” and raise public a...
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Stimulate a sanitary revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (PIVOT WORKS)
Proposing a renewable energy source from solid materials from waste water, sludge from latrines and septic tanks, to improve the health situation in Kigali.
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From Paris to Belem: 10 years of innovative solutions in the service of the Paris Agreement
As COP30 opens in Belém, ten years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) reminds us that innovative solutions do exist to turn climate ambitions i...
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Toward a new equilibrium between forest, fauna and populations.
Rich in exceptional biodiversity, the region around the Kibale national park has for several decades been subject to various destabilizing factors, from intensive poaching through to the use of danger...
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Technical assistance related to the Energy Access Fund
The Energy Access Fund is an impact fund set up at the initiative of Schneider Electric to invest in access to electricity for rural and semi-urban communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Program to support Livelihoods Fund
Livelihoods Fund is an innovative initiative of private and institutional investors. It allows local organizations that do not have access to investment to restore their ecosystem, by providing them w...
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Strengthening Community Resilience to Environmental Vulnerabilities in the Sine Saloum Delta
The project, led by the NEBEDAY association, aims to enhance the adaptive capacities and resilience of communities in the Sine Saloum Delta in the face of ecological, economic, and climate-related vul...
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Hydroelectric and solar energy to power essential services
In the remote rural areas of Congo, Pot@maï is deploying an innovative solution combining tidal and solar energy to power essential services. These autonomous units, designed with local communities, m...
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When energy innovation brings lasting change to regions
In the context of climate change, it is essential to highlight the central role of engineering in mitigating its effects. On World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development, the Pot@maï project prov...
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Restoring soils and the multifunctionality of degraded forest landscapes
The depletion of forest resources represents both an environmental and a socio-economic challenge for Côte d’Ivoire. To restore the soils and preserve organic carbon stores, the FFEM is supporting the...
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Participative forestry for local communities
The social forestry which has developed over the last two decades, in particular with the roll-out of community forests, has failed to deliver the expected social, economic and environmental planning...
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Management of plastic waste, in accordance with the Basel Convention
In line with the principles of the Basel Convention, the project supported by the FFEM aims to better protect human health and the environment against the adverse impacts of plastic waste in Cape Verd...
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Sustainable development for small islands
The FFEM is supporting the Small Islands Organisation (SMILO) in its scaling-up of actions to embed long-term development of small islands and extend the “sustainable island” accreditation to new isla...
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Regional Platform for Advancing REDD+ Implementation in the Guiana Shield
The Guiana Shield, shared by Brazil (State of Amapá), France (French Guiana), Guyana, Suriname, Colombia, and Venezuela, is composed of largely intact primary tropical rainforests. These forests play...
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Sustainable funding for the Rwenzori Mountains National Park
To develop perennial sources of funding for the Rwenzori Mountains National Park and the local population, namely to increase tourism revenues and private sector mobilization by a water PES pilot pro...
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PhytoTrade. Certified natural products to preserve biodiversity and support local development in Southern Africa
Supporting PhytoTrade Africa (PTA), which plays a major role in promoting the management of environmental sustainability, the development of markets and inclusive supply chains for natural products a...
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