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North Kalimantan launches WebGIS website
On June 9, 2023, the Forestry Agency of North Kalimantan, Indonesia launched a WebGIS-based Goegraphical Information Services webpage to assist relevant stakeholders pinpoint land area and identify land function in North Kalimantan. The webpage – https://webgis.dishut.kaltaraprov.go.id/ – is embedded in the agency’s website and allows users to check the administrative boundaries and land function of […]
June 14, 2023
Exciting Partnership Announced in Peru for Monitoring the Amazon
On Friday, June 2, 2023, the Peruvian Air Force signed an interinstitutional cooperation agreement with the Mancomunidad Regional Amazónica to monitor the Amazonian and national territories of Peru. The Mancomunidad grew out of a collaboration between the six Amazonian regional governments of Peru who are members of the GCF Task Force. Under this agreement, the […]
June 13, 2023
Tocantins Partners with Mercuria on a Jurisdictional Carbon Contract
On June 5, 2023, World Environment Day, the State of Tocantins, Brazil, entered into a ten-year contract with Mercuria Energy Trading, a Swiss energy company for the sale of verified, jurisdictional carbon credits. Under this contract, Tocantins will be able to sell jurisdictional carbon credits to Mercuria after having completed the requirements of The REDD+ […]
June 10, 2023
GCF Task Force Remote Sensing Workshop at UCLA Drives Collaboration and Innovation
Over the course of this week, the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force) held its first Remote Sensing Workshop at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). This workshop was designed for geospatial technicians and decision-maker representatives of GCF Task Force member jurisdictions and is a key component of our grant from […]
June 9, 2023
GCF Task Force to host first Remote Sensing Workshop next week at UCLA
The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force), in collaboration with Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment at UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, will host its first Remote Sensing Workshop this June 5-8, thanks in part to the funding and support from NORAD, […]
June 2, 2023
GCF Task Force Delegation holds key meetings in Washington, DC and Miami
From May 8-10, a group of more than 20 high level officials from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru – Governors, Secretaries of Environment, and other Delegates – along with GCF Task Force Secretariat leaders, represented the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force global network in meetings with U.S. governmental and bilateral donor institutions in […]
May 16, 2023
GCF Task Force Participates in California-Mexico 2030 Climate Summit
At our February 2022 Annual Meeting, the GCF Task Force signed a Memorandum of Partnership with the University of California’s AlianzaMX to help train the next generation of leaders in Mexico and California on sustainability, climate change, and natural resources management. Alianza MX is a systemwide initiative of the University of California (UC) that seeks […]
April 30, 2023
Brazil GCF Task Force State Environment Secretaries Convene in Rio Branco, Acre
The Environment Secretaries of the 9 Brazilian States who are members of the GCF Task Force convened for a Forum of Environmental Secretaries of the Legal Amazon and the Brazilian Steering Committee of the GCF Task Force in Acre, Brazil last week. This forum provides an important space for the Secretaries to discuss common challenges […]
April 18, 2023
An ancestral plan to protect the Amazon in Pastaza, Ecuador
A new video was released last week on the innovative efforts within Pastaza, Ecuador to protect and conserve five million hectares of Ecuadorian rainforest through the implementation of a sustainable development plan in collaboration with the indigenous peoples who live there. This strategy promotes an ancestral system of agroforestry cultivation, the chakra. In 2023, the […]
April 3, 2023
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