News & Events
12/12/2011 - « Nous ne pouvons pas combattre le changement climatique en condamnant l’Afrique à la pauvreté », a déclaré le président de la Banque africaine de développement, Donald Kaberuka, présent à la Conférence des Nations unies sur le changement climatique, qui se clôt aujourd’hui à Durban, en Afrique du Sud.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, Congo Basin Forest Fund, Environment
09/12/2011 - Le conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé le 05 décembre 2011, un don de plus de 2,4 millions d’euros en faveur de la République du Congo pour financer un inventaire forestier au niveau national par le Fonds pour les forêts du Bassin du Congo.
Categories: Congo, Congo Basin Forest Fund
08/12/2011 - The battle against deforestation in Africa has taken a step nearer to victory with a new pact aiming at greater protection for the world’s second biggest rain forest. The Congo Basin forest area covers more than 200 million hectares in central Africa and is vital to world ecology and a stable climate. But Africa’s forests have been shrinking steadily over the years.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Congo Basin Forest Fund, Environment
05/12/2011 - Forests take up a huge amount of the continent, but are one of Africa’s most misunderstood and undervalued natural resources. At a discussion on deforestation at the climate change conference, or COP 17, in Durban, delegates learned that forests account for 23 percent of Africa’s land area. The largest are the forest ecosystems of the Congo Basin and Upper Guinea.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Congo Basin Forest Fund, Environment
05/12/2011 - The UN-based fund that helps compensate developing countries combat deforestation should start fighting the causes as well as the effects. That was one of the main recommendations from forestry experts who gathered at the climate change conference, COP 17, in Durban.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Congo Basin Forest Fund, Environment
01/12/2011 - Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé à Tunis, le 29 novembre 2011, un don de plus de 4,5 millions d’euros en faveur de la République du Rwanda, pour le financement du projet de gestion durable des boisements et de restauration des forêts naturelles du Rwanda. Ce projet est financé par le Fonds pour les forêts du bassin du Congo (FFBC).
Categories: Rwanda, Congo Basin Forest Fund
- From: 06/06/2011
- To: 10/06/2011
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Le saviez-vous ? Plus d'un quart des forêts tropicales du monde se trouvent en Afrique. La forêt équatoriale du Bassin du Congo est la deuxième au monde, en termes de superficie, après le bassin amazonien. Elle constitue l’écosystème le plus riche de la région et abrite plus de la moitié des plantes et des animaux sauvages du continent. Elle s’étale sur plusieurs pays d’Afrique centrale (Cameroun, Gabon, Rep. Centrafricaine, Congo-Brazza-ville et R.D. du Congo).
Categories: Climate Change, Congo Basin Forest Fund, Environment
23/02/2011 - The Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF) has signed on Monday 21st February 2011 in Tunis (Tunisia), an agreement about the management of CBFF projects. The Fund Management Agency (FMA) will be a consortium made of Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and the foundation Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) and will assist the Bank manage CBFF operations under a threshold value of Euros 2.5 million.
Categories: Congo Basin Forest Fund, Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, Environment
10/12/2010 - The Governing Council of CBFF endorsed at it’s 9th Governing Council meeting a total of 25 new projects, including 13 government projects and 12 projects from the civil society, amounting to Euros 63,136,586.
Categories: Congo Basin Forest Fund
10/12/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) joined representatives from other multilateral development banks (MDB) on Monday, 6 December 2010, in a joint side event on “Scaling-up International Climate Finance” during the ongoing COP16 Climate Conference. It was an opportunity to share with stakeholders how MDBs are collaborating to expand access to international financing and bolster investments in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Categories: Mexico, Environment, Climate Change, Congo Basin Forest Fund
