Les actualités récentes du Partenariat pour les Forêts du Bassin du Congo
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Flash News for March 2016 No. 1 |
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The
Cook Islands have received financial resources from the Green Climate
Fund to strengthen their capacity to access finance through GCF.With
this disbursement, Cook Islands are the first country in the Pacific
region and the first Small Island Developing State (SIDS) to receive such funding.
Read more …
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| World Wildlife Day 2016 - The future of wildlife is in our hands-
Add your event on the map and share your activities with the world
-Please consult Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General UN’s message and John E.
Scanlon, Secretary-General CITES Secretariat’s keynote addres, Events,
the International elephant film festival…... Find out more... |
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The Board of the Green Climate Fund has taken a series of policy decisions designed to strengthen its partnerships and grow its project pipeline in 2016. The decisions, taken at the Board’s twelfth meeting (B.12), include the adoption of the Fund’s first Strategic Plan, its Work Plan for 2016, and the accreditation of 13 new entities.
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Hong
Kong, 11th March 2016—More than 100 behaviour change experts and
practitioners met this week in Hong Kong to formulate innovative
approaches and action plans to change the knowledge, attitudes and
practice of consumers of illegal wildlife products.
Participants from approximately 60
organizations across the globe represented diverse professional and
research experience on influencing consumer choice and a wide spectrum
of markets, economies and cultures.
“This
was a groundbreaking gathering of demand reduction experts, and we’re
confident that between us, we have made great progress in establishing
the collaborations and strategies that are needed to prompt major
changes in consumer buying behaviour” said Steven Broad, Executive
Director of TRAFFIC.
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Xishuangbanna,
China, March 2016—Last week a workshop on reducing demand for illegal
wildlife products was jointly convened by the China Wildlife
Conservation Association (CWCA), the British Embassy to China and
TRAFFIC in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Gardens.
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London,
UK, 15th March 2016—The signing of a new declaration committing leaders
of the global transportation industry to major steps to fight wildlife
trafficking has been hailed by The Duke of Cambridge as “a game changer
in the race against extinction.”
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Hong
Kong, 17th March 2016—market surveys in Hong Kong and mainland China
have revealed the large scale of illegal and unreported trade in
Humphead Wrasse despite the introduction of regulatory measures in 2005.
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With data becoming ever "bigger", increasing in volume (not sampling, just ingesting), with greater velocity (available in near real-time) and in limitless variety (drawing
from text, images, audio, video, and many new forms), there is great
potential to change the way we understand and care for the world.
Specifically, concepts like “sustainability” begin to take on more
definition. Big data is fueled by the power of transparency and can help
to identify sustainability leaders and those lagging behind set
sustainability targets across corporate and sovereign landscapes.
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2016 Champions of the Earth Nomination
UNEP invites nominations from individuals and organizations who
exemplify leadership and advocate action on sustainable development and
climate change at the national, regional and global levels.Read more …
WWF-Salonga Program AdministratorThe
Salonga Program Administrator shall be in charge of developing
administrative and financial procedures and supervise administrative and
logistics staff of the program in collaboration with the local Human
Resource Office.
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