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Land and climate change finance in Central Africa: GM and COMIFAC seek to unlock opportunities
14 October, 2009
The Central African sub-region holds considerable potential for climate change mitigation and adaptation activities, yet inventories of potential sites or programme designs are either incomplete or preliminary. To date, Central Africa has not exploited its full potential and could, in practice, receive much more investment for mitigation and adaptation activities in the context of support to UNCCD implementation and beyond.
Within this framework the Central Africa Forest Commission (COMIFAC), with support of the GM and together with Ecosecurities, have issued a working paper on “Land and Climate Change Finance in Central Africa” to identify climate change adaptation and mitigation activities in the sub-region, and options for improving access to climate change finance supporting the UNCCD. The study was presented at a side event during COP 9 in Buenos Aires.
Following an introduction by Mr Chouaibou Nchoutpouen, on behalf of the Executive Secretary of COMIFAC that highlighted the role and achievements of the GM/COMIFAC partnership, Mr Robert Tippmann, Associate Director of Ecosecurities, presented the main outcomes of the study. In particular, he highlighted the key recommendations for the Central African sub-region to improve its prospects of accessing climate change-related financing and funding in ways that will support the implementation of the UNCCD, including by drawing on mitigation and adaptation funding opportunities under the UNFCCC.
Mr Gaius Elemga Bolumgu Entanga, Assistant to the UNCCD National Focal Point of the Republic of the Congo, presented the country’s experience in mobilizing climate change financing for sustainable land management (SLM) and gave recommendations for increasing such opportunities. He confirmed the existence of largely untapped renewable resources and limited internal capacity to tap this potential. Ms. Saveis Joze Sadeghian, Advisor to the GM’s Climate Change Strategic Programme presented the capacity building programme of the GM that aims to identify mitigation and adaptation project opportunities for the implementation of UNCCD and has been designed to address these challenges. This initiative is part of the GM’s long-term engagement in Central Africa, which aims at mobilizing financing for SLM
A lively discussion ensued that centred on the emerging opportunities of Central African countries to upscale financing from climate change mechanisms for SLM.
Download the full report of the side event (pdf, French, 2mb)
Read more about the GM's support prrogramme to COMIFAC (pdf, English, 651kb)
Mr Gaius Elemga Bolumgu Entanga, Assistant to the UNCCD National Focal Point of the Republic of the Congo, presented the country’s experience in mobilizing climate change financing for sustainable land management (SLM) and gave recommendations for increasing such opportunities. He confirmed the existence of largely untapped renewable resources and limited internal capacity to tap this potential. Ms. Saveis Joze Sadeghian, Advisor to the GM’s Climate Change Strategic Programme presented the capacity building programme of the GM that aims to identify mitigation and adaptation project opportunities for the implementation of UNCCD and has been designed to address these challenges. This initiative is part of the GM’s long-term engagement in Central Africa, which aims at mobilizing financing for SLM
A lively discussion ensued that centred on the emerging opportunities of Central African countries to upscale financing from climate change mechanisms for SLM.
Download the full report of the side event (pdf, French, 2mb) Read more about the GM's support prrogramme to COMIFAC (pdf, English, 651kb) For more information:
Mr Sven Walter, Programme Officer, West and Central Africa
Tel. +39 06 5459 2150
s.walter (at) global-mechanism.org
Tel. +39 06 5459 2150
s.walter (at) global-mechanism.org
Ms Saveis Sadeghian, Junior Advisor, Climate Change Programme
Tel. +39 06 5459 2625
s.sadeghian (at) global-mechanism.org
Tel. +39 06 5459 2625
s.sadeghian (at) global-mechanism.org
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