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Amazonas Launches COVID-19 Guide for Conservation Units

The new manual is part of the #FicaNaCumunidade (Stay in Your Community) campaign and is intended to disseminate official information about COVID-19 to people who live in Conservation Units in the Amazon. The campaign is part of a series of actions aimed at combating the pandemic in protected areas in the State. The material combines the main World Health Organization recommendations with other measures taken by the Government of Amazonas.

April 17, 2020

Resilient Amazon: From Emergency to Sustainable Development in the Wake of COVID-19

As COVID-19 has swept across the globe it is clear that we are confronting not just a worldwide health pandemic, but also a deepening economic crisis. While the financial impact of COVID-19 is in the early stages of taking root across the tropics, in Peru, GCF Task Force Governors are keenly aware that we must […]

April 7, 2020

Annual Meeting 2020 to be Rescheduled for September

Important notification to GCF Task Force members and partners regarding the dates of our Annual Meeting in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.   After careful consideration and monitoring of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force and the Government of Amazonas have decided to postpone our Annual Meeting in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. This […]

March 13, 2020

Plano para o Combate Estratégico da Desmatamento Ilegal Endossado em Belém

Belém, Pará, Brazil–Os membros da Força-Tarefa do GCF Brasil lançaram um plano de ação regional para o combate estratégico da exploração florestal ilegal, desmatamento ilegal, incêndios florestais e queimadas ilegais na Amazônia Legal ontem. Membros da Força-Tarefa GCF Brasil no Encontro Regional em Belém. Os estados também discutiram oportunidades para alavancar o padrão ART/TREES para […]

Strength in Unity: IP/LC Global Committee Convenes in Oaxaca

Members of the GCF Task Force Global Committee for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru gathered in Oaxaca on March 3, 2020.

March 7, 2020

Enfoques Jurisdiccionales: Quintana Roo

Quintana Roo, México. Foto por el Gobierno de Quintana Roo. EDITORIAL Al día de hoy, la producción de energías limpias y renovables es uno de los compromisos que los gobiernos de distintos países han asumido para cumplir con los acuerdos internacionales en torno al cambio climático, como el Acuerdo de París. Con el objetivo de […]

February 28, 2020

Gobernador del Estado de Jalisco Presenta La Alianza de Gobernadores Mexicanos por el clima

La sesión de la Comisión de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Hídricos y Cambio Climático de la CONAGO, se reunió en la Ciudad de México el 27 de noviembre. En la sesión de la Comisión de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Hídricos y Cambio Climático de la CONAGO, celebrada el pasado 27 de noviembre en la Ciudad de México, […]

December 30, 2019

Unity at COP25: Working Together to Advance Subnational Climate Action

(MADRID, SPAIN) Last week, subnational leaders from around the world convened at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain. Governors, secretaries of the environment, civil servants, indigenous leaders, and more from GCF Task Force member states and provinces in Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Indonesia, Colombia, Ecuador, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria gathered in Madrid […]

December 19, 2019

Governors from Brazil, Peru, Indonesia, and Mexico Tackle Climate Change At COP25

(MADRID, SPAIN) The Governors’ Climate & Forests (GCF) Task Force—the world’s largest subnational collaboration of states and provinces working to protect tropical forests, reduce deforestation and forest degradation, and promote realistic pathways to forest-maintaining development through direct partnerships with subnational governments, civil society, the private sector, indigenous peoples and local communities—held an Official Side Event […]

December 16, 2019