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New report on Environmental Licensing released by Brazilian Amazon States
A report released in June on Environmental Licensing in Brazil presents a diagnosis of environmental licensing in four strategic productive chains for the Legal Amazon region: livestock, large-scale agriculture, timber forest management and non-timber forest management.
September 22, 2020
Gobernador Carlos Joaquín habla del Generación de Capacidades Técnicas y Financieras en Quintana Roo
El pasado 14 de Septiembre, Quintana Roo y su socio implementador The Nature Conservancy México, llevaron a cabo un evento virtual para presentar los resultados del proyecto “Generación de Capacidades Técnicas y Financieras para la implementación de la estrategia jurisdiccional REDD+ en Quintana Roo.” El Gobernador del Estado Carlos Joaquín, confirmó que Quintana Roo impulsa el crecimiento económico […]
September 18, 2020
Amazonas launches “Amazonas Mais Verde” program to stimulate sustainable economic development
Today, Governor Wilson Lima of Amazonas, Brazil launched the “Amazonas Mais Verde” program to strengthen sustainable economic development, land and environmental regularization as a strategy to contain deforestation and forest fires—with particular attention to Southern municipalities and in the Metropolitan Region of Manaus. The Program, based on the Plan for the Prevention and Control of […]
September 15, 2020
Government of Chiapas Presents State Investment Plan
On August 19, 2020, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural History of the State of Chiapas (SEMAHN), in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy Mexico as implementing partner for the State during the financing period of Window A of the GCF Task Force, carried out the closing event of the project “State Investment Plan Moving Towards […]
September 14, 2020
Dialogues for the Amazon: Brazilian Environmental Secretaries on the Fight Against Forest Fires
On Thursday, September 3rd, Brazilian GCF Task Force States will host Dialogues for the Amazon—a live conversation with Environmental State Secretaries on actions taken and lessons learned in the fight against forest fires. The online event will be conducted in Portuguese and will take place at 18:00 Brasilia Time (GMT+3) on the SEMA YouTube Chanel, […]
September 2, 2020
Ver el vídeo: Programa de Incentivos Regionales en Perú
En un contexto de crisis pos-pandemia, el PIR (Programa de Incentivos Regionales) nace como una propuesta de reactivación económica para las Regiones Amazónicas que, estratégicamente, repotencia herramientas regionales ya existentes: Marca Jurisdiccional, Instrumentos Financieros, Alianzas Público-Privada-Productivas y Asesoría Comercial de Exportación. Estos instrumentos conforman un sistema integrado que refuerza el trabajo de las regiones hacia […]
September 1, 2020
Strengthening indigenous womens’ entrepreneurial skills in Acre, Brazil
Initiatives are underway to empower and strengthen indigenous women in Acre, Brazil. On August 20th, the Government of Acre joined the Office of the First Lady and Secretariat for Social Assistance, Human Rights and Policies for Women (SEASDHM), together with the National Secretariat for Policies for Women (SNPM) and the Ministry of Women, Family and […]
August 26, 2020
Remembering the life of Robinson López
It is with heavy hearts that we lament the passing of Robinson López yesterday, 21 August 2020. Robinson was a committed leader for the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon and beyond, through his work as the Coordinator of Climate Change of the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), former […]
August 22, 2020
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
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