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Indonesian Provinces Craft NDC Roadmap to Reduce Emissions from the Forest and Land Use Sectors

In recent years, Indonesia has taken enormous strides towards reducing deforestation—the country was recently rewarded with a nearly USD 60 million payment from the Government of Norway for reducing deforestation in 2017, and the World Resources Institute highlighted Indonesia as one of the few countries in the world to reduce primary forest loss in 2019. […]

August 21, 2020

The first fire season in Mexico concludes with less impact than previous year

Forest fires are a problem that the environment faces year after year. The fight against forest fire requires collective efforts and commitments towards preventing fires in forests and jungles. Multiple factors derived from anthropogenic activities cause fires, and climate change continues to generate changing temperature patterns in the world, where Mexico is no exception, as […]

July 30, 2020

Piura represented before the High Level Commission on Climate Change

In 2020, the Piura Regional Government assumed the presidency of the National Assembly of Regional Governments (ANGR), elected by the Governors of the Peruvian jurisdictions. Under Supreme Decree No. 006-2020-MINAM on July 21, 2020, the High Level Commission on Climate Change was created as a permanent multisectoral commission. This Commission has in its composition the […]

July 29, 2020

Indonesian provinces to develop plans to distribute benefits from reducing deforestation

On July 10th, GCF Task Force delegates from Indonesia held a webinar to share information on the design of the Benefit Sharing Plans (BSP). BSP’s are mechanisms to distribute revenue that is generated from reducing deforestation, such as the NOK 530 Million (approximately USD 55 million) the Government of Norway has committed to Indonesia for […]

Eduardo Taveira appointed to Committee for Protected Areas of the Amazon (ARPA)

Eduardo Taveira, Secretary of the Environment from Amazonas and GCF Task Force delegate, was appointed by Brazil’s Minister of Environment, Ricardo Salles, to the Committee for the Protected Areas of the Amazon Program (ARPA). In this role, Taveira will represent the state organizations and entities responsible for managing Conservation Units in the Brazilian Amazon, which, […]

July 20, 2020

Spotlight on Colombia: Reducing deforestation amidst COVID-19 pandemic

As the world confronts the second half of a tumultuous year spearheaded by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated impacts on forests, we look to Colombia for positive news after the Ministry of Environment presented the results of their 2019 deforestation monitoring yesterday. Despite forest loss rising around the world, Colombia reports an encouraging reduction in […]

July 10, 2020

Boletín Junio del Grupo de Trabajo GCF México [ES]

En este edición del boletín de los miembros estados mexicanos del junio 2020: Instrumentos de acción en pro de la resiliencia ante el cambio climático SEMAHN y SAGyP: trajabo en conjunto para la planeación y protección de los recursos naturales de Chiapas Mes del Planeta  

July 8, 2020

Innovation Funding Window B Announcement

The Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force, together with its partners Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is pleased to announce the launch of a new Innovation Funding Window under the Norway pledge to the GCF Task Force.

June 22, 2020

Madre de Dios announces sustainable livestock guidelines in partnership with Ministry of Agriculture of Peru

The guidelines for sustainable livestock in Madre de Dios are jointly developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation and the Regional Government of Madre de Dios and seek to contribute to the trajectory of decarbonization of Madre de Dios. Government and civil society, with the participation of the Livestock Technical Bureau, will support the […]