by gcftf | Apr 11, 2017 | Brazil
The 14th session of the Forum of State Environmental Secretaries of the Brazilian Amazon met in São Luís, in the state of Maranhão, on April 6-7, 2017, with support of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force. The event had representatives from all nine states of...
by gcftf | Feb 13, 2017 | Brazil, United States of America
This past January, Governor Tião Viana spent two weeks promoting scientific, technical, and business partnerships between the Brazilian State of Acre and higher education, business, governmental and civil society leaders in Colorado. Governor Viana and a delegation...
by gcftf | Nov 18, 2016 | Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, United States of America
This year’s 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been coined the “The COP of Action,” promising to put the Paris Agreement into action. In response, jurisdictions from the Governors Climate and Forests...
by gcftf | Oct 27, 2016 | Brazil, United States of America
Governor Viana of Acre, Brazil and a high-level delegation of governmental and indigenous leaders from his state visited California in October 2016. The purpose of this visit was threefold: to foster collaboration with other early-mover GCF leaders (Governor Brown of...
by gcftf | Sep 15, 2016 | Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria
GCF delegates from Papua, Indonesia organized an international conference that united the GCF across Indonesia with important international donors, including USAID, the US Embassy, GTZ, the European Union, and the Rainforest Foundation. The purpose of the conference...
by gcftf | Sep 15, 2016 | Brazil
Brazil made history at the recent GCF annual meeting when the State Secretary of Environment for Amazonas (SEMA), on behalf of the State Government of Amazonas, and the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS), delivered its first-ever certificate of carbon emissions...
