by gcftf | Feb 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
In a recent letter published in the Sacramento Bee, the President of the Coordinating Group of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), Edwin Vazquez, highlights the importance of engaging indigenous communities in efforts to conserve tropical forests...
by gcftf | Jan 2, 2018 | Brazil, United States of America
Economist João Tezza Neto, Ph.D. candidate at the Federal University of Amazonas (Brazil), visited the Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force (GCF) Secretariat at CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Energy & Environmental Policy Innovation (LEEP). The lecture he...
by gcftf | Dec 22, 2017 | Ecuador
2017 was a busy year for Antonio Kubes, the Governor of Pastaza, Ecuador. In March, Governor Kubes signed an ordinance to establish the Pastaza Ecological Area of Sustainable Development, a protected area of more than 2.5 million hectares that covers 90% of the...
by gcftf | Dec 15, 2017 | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Peru
Through support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force and the Under2 MOU Secretariat, The Climate Group, will advance progress towards making long-term, deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in key tropical forest...
by gcftf | Nov 27, 2017 | Indonesia, United States of America
2017 GCF Task Force Everyday Hero Award Presented to California Air Resource Board’s Jason Gray Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force Annual Meeting | September 28, 2017 Balikpapan, East Kalimantan Indonesia This year the GCF presented the Everyday Hero...
