How forest restoration enhances opportunities for women shea producers in Northern Ghana.
Nearly 200 countries signed up to the historic, legally binding Paris Agreement back in 2015, and countless lives and livelihoods, as well as plant and animal species and areas of inspiring natural beauty, will be saved if the world pulls together to limit global warming to well below two degrees Celsius.
But five years on, despite genuine aspiration and clear progress, we are just not moving fast enough.
In late August 2020, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved $103.8 million US in results-based payments (RBPs) for Indonesia’s REDD+ emissions reductions from 2014 to 2016.
Forests are vital for Cambodia, especially for forest-dependent communities, who are the ones suffering from the primary effects of climate change.
The Indigenous and Afro-descendant Cultural Safeguard encompasses the respect, recognition and practice of the Collective Rights or Fundamental Rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of Honduras.
Panama is developing actions to achieve the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement, whose long-term objective is to keep the global average temperature rise well below 2 ° C above preindustrial levels.
South-South cooperation promotes solidarity among developing countries pursuing similar development paths by allowing them to address common challenges.
Gabon, whose forest covers close to 90 percent of its territory, receives breakthrough funding from Norway to continue fighting climate change through preserving and managing its natural resources sustainably.
Key takeaways on forest climate action.
