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World Wetlands Day: Essential ecosystems to preserve: Traditional knowledge, international commitments, and FFEM actions
Every year on February 2, World Wetlands Day is celebrated to raise public awareness of the major issues related to these essential ecosystems. The theme for 2026 is “Wetlands and Traditional Knowledg...
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Use of plastics and waste management to benefit the environment in Costa Rica
As a substantial importer of plastics, Costa Rica has to manage a significant amount of waste, part of which ends up in the wild. To limit the impact of this pollution on the environment, the project...
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Equal rights and environmental justice in the Lower Zambezi: a new pact for the territories
On World Social Justice Day, the FFEM is promoting the development of local communities through one of its flagship projects in the Lower Zambezi region: Entreprises Pro Nature. Launched in 2022 for a...
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FFEM 2025 Visibility Guide
The FFEM Visibility and Communication Guide is an essential tool designed to support project leaders backed by the French Fund for the Global Environment. It aims to ensure clear, consistent, and effe...
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Santa Fe Bets on Nature with an Urban Nature Reserve (UNR)
Design and development of a Natural Urban Reserve (NUR) in west Santa Fe, Argentina, to ensure the consistent and sustainable development of an urban area which is currently neglected and subject to h...
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Support for financial innovation and strengthening of environmental funds in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean (REDLAC-CAFE)
Strengthen the capacities of Environmental Funds (EF), consolidate the RedLAC and CAFE networks and promote exchange among their members, while developing five innovative financing mechanisms to addre...
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Program for the development of a low-carbon building market adapted to climate change in Africa (Nubian Vault)
Ensuring African rural communities access to sustainable, adapted and ecological housing, with a very low carbon footprint, by working on measures for both climate change adaptation and mitigation....
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Reinforcing the national system for protected areas in the Bijagos Archipelago
Contributing to a trust fund for sustainably financing conservation in marine and terrestrial protected areas in Guinea-Bissau.
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Linking green and grey infrastructures to strengthen coastal resilience to climate events
In the Philippines, extreme climatic events are becoming increasingly frequent and intense. To reinforce the resilience of this small island State, the FFEM is supporting Conservation International in...
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Developing sustainable modes of production and consumption in the Uruguayan Protected Areas (SNAP)
Adopt sustainable modes of production and consumption in protected areas and adjacent territories, by strengthening quality chains that contribute to the protection of natural and cultural heritage, I...
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Village hydroelectric systems, energy and respect for the environment
Improving the access of rural households to electricity by mobilising private funds for the development of hydroelectric systems and decentralised and clean solutions using renewable energies and thos...
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Innovative management and financing for the biodiversity of Grand Bangweulu
The Kasanka Trust Limited (KTL) is an NGO responsible for managing the Kasanka National Park and the Kafinda game management area. With support from the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) a...
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Encouraging the private sector to participate in biodiversity conservation
Active contribution to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals by the South American, Caribbean and African conservation trust funds (CTFs) is essential. This project, sponsored by the RedLAC and CAFÉ...
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African civil society, finance of small biodiversity- and climate-themed projects
To protect biodiversity and climate from further degradation, civil society must acquire the tools it needs to make a positive impact. Such is the goal of this FFEM-supported project, which aims to en...
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Promoting the emergence of North African civil society organisations working on biodiversitynord-africaines engagées en faveur de la biodiversité
Biodiversity conservation requires everyone to be involved, especially actors working on the ground. By supporting environmental projects, led by up-and-coming CSOs, this programme plays an important...
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Ocean activities to preserve the biodiversity of the Northern Mozambique Channel
Subject to pressures from oil and gas companies, the area around the Northern Mozambique Channel (NoCaMo) is also threatened by maritime traffic and climate change. The FFEM is supporting the NoCaMo p...
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Towards financial and institutional sustainability
This multi-regional project (Africa-Latin America-Caribbean) plans to strengthen the international network of Conservation Finance Alliance, which is involved in the financing of conservation. It is a...
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Experimental Platform for the Management of Rural Territories in Legal Amazonia (PETRA)
Developing a platform for support, exchanges and environmental, social and economic observation for research and sustainable development in the north-west region of Mato Grosso and Brazil’s Amazonian...
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Integration of the tropical wood industry in Central and West Africa into the FLEGT and REDD+ mechanisms
Promoting sustainable tropical forest management in the private forestry sector and socioeconomic development in timber producing countries
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Conserving and developing biodiversity in the Balkan mountains
Combining biodiversity conservation and sustainable economic development by developing the promotion of local products and the patrimony in the Balkan mountains.
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