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The FFEM launches a new call for project proposals on the “environmentally sound management of chemicals and h...
The FFEM launches a new call for project proposals on the “environmentally sound management of chemicals and hazardous waste” in developing countries.
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WORLD OCEAN DAY: THE FFEM LAUNCHES l'INITIATIVE MANGROVE
For the World Ocean Day, the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) is launching l’Initiative Mangroves.
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Publication of The FFEM at a glance: find out all about the FFEM
With 120 million euros of financial resources being allowed for the 2019-2022 period, the FFEM has just renewed its strategy and defined new priority guidelines. What are the new themes covered by the...
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Solar energy-powered motorbikes in Uganda: signature of the financing agreement for the Zembo project
On Tuesday 23 July, Zembo co-founder Etienne Saint-Sernin and FFEM Secretary-General Stéphanie Bougizes-Eschmann signed a financing agreement for €600,000.
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Libération: “Giving deforestation in Colombia the chop”
First published in Libération on 21 August 2019, this article revisits the sustainable forestry planning project in the Colombian Pacific region, supported by the FFEM, the EU and ONF Andina (French N...
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A LOOK AT THE INNOVATIVE NATURE OF ‘PROJECT RESSOURCE’ WITH CONSTANCE CORBIER-BARTHAUX
Between 1960 and 2000, the number of water birds in the great Sahel wetlands declined by about 40%. Project RESSOURCE aims to significantly improve living standards for the local populations of these...
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Event:Ocean-based solutions for climate action - feedback from the field and contributions from marine science...
A wide range of ocean-based solutions exist to limit climate change and its impacts on marine ecosystems, both in terms of mitigation and adaptation. The contributions of science and feedback from fie...
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RESTORING COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: A NEW FINANCING AGREEMENT
On 20 February 2020 in Mauritius, Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and Hamada Madi, Secretary-General of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), signed a new financing...
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JANIQUE ETIENNE TALKS TO THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ABOUT NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATI...
Janique Etienne, FFEM head of Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience projects, took part in the French parliamentary think-tank session “Combating climate change and its effects” on 12 December 2019. During the...
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PUBLICATION OF AN ONERC REPORT: “NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION”
The publisher Documentation française is today publishing an information and recommendations report from the French National Observatory on the Effects of Climate Change (ONERC) for France's Prime Min...
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Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann: “the ffem has been producing innovative ideas for the environment for 25 years”
The French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) was launched after the first Earth Summit, in 1994. Since then, it has worked towards a single goal: to create synergies between environmental preserv...
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Covid-19 and lockdown: the FFEM team remains mobilised
In this unprecedented period of Covid-19 pandemic, involving the lockdown of many people, the FFEM team would like to assure its partners of the continuation of the appraisal of current projects. The...
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Interview on RFI: Costa Rica – Benin, a South-South mobilisation to save the mangroves
Janique Etienne, Head of marine and coastal ecosystems at the FFEM, was interviewed on “C’est pas du vent”, RFI’s environmental magazine, broadcast on 16 April.
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THE LATEST ON THE SWM PROGRAMME AND ‘RESSOURCE’ PROJECT
The SWM (Sustainable Wildlife Management) Programme has just published its 4th newsletter.
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PUBLICATION OF THE OFB “NATURAL AREAS” JOURNAL: THE FFEM CALLS FOR SOLUTION-SHARING
The French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) has just published the latest issue of its “Espaces Naturels” (“Natural Areas”) journal. In the editorial, FFEM Secretary-General Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann invit...
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Aristide Takoukam: “Beyond its technological innovation, the project has encouraged true environmental citizen...
Aristide Takoukam is president and founder of the NGO AMMCO (African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization) in Cameroon. He explains how AMMCO has launched apps to monitor and protect endangered mar...
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Covid-19 crisis – Strengthening population's resilience by supporting conservancies in Northern Kenya
In the context of the Covid-19 crisis the FFEM is trying to deliver a concrete response to the country's most vulnerable populations, and to the economic sectors most affected by the crisis in Kenya,...
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Soft solutions to combat coastal erosion in Senegal
The FFEM has made the resilience of aquatic and coastal ecosystems one of its key priorities. To this end, it’s funding a project in Senegal, Togo and Benin to develop soft solutions to combat coastal...
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