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Costa Rica: Working together towards Carbon Neutrality
Costa Rica hosts close to 5% of the world's terrestrial flora and fauna – an immense amount for a small South American country one-tenth the size of France. It's also home to a wealth of biodiversity...
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Boosting Blue Finance to Protect the Oceans
Earlier this summer, Costa Rica hosted the Immersed in Change conference, which is part of the collective effort to call for the protection of oceans. AFD’s deputy head of Sustainable Development Solu...
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Defying Desertification: Feeding Populations without Plundering the Planet
In the quest to feed a rapidly global population, certain modes of farming and food production are damaging the environment and stripping the earth of valuable nutrients and minerals. For the opening...
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Colombia: a Key Tool for the Energy Transition
With more than 50% of its exports concentrated in oil and coal, the Colombian economy is highly vulnerable to the energy transition. This highlights an apparent tension between the climate and biodive...
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Protecting and Raising the Profile of Environmentalists in Amazonia
In Peru's Madre de Dios region, women and men are risking their lives to defend their land and biodiversity in the face of illegal mining. The Inclusive Protection of Environmental Defenders in the Am...
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Climate Change: Promoting and Supporting Citizen Engagement
The climate emergency is prompting calls across the globe demanding more active citizen participation. We are seeing a proliferation of initiatives and schemes geared towards this, including in operat...
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Findings from a Study on Citizenship Education in Emerging and Developing Countries
AFD and the Education for Citizenship and International Solidarity (ECIS) consultation group have published a report on ECIS organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, providing a clearer pictur...
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"Atlas" of Latin America and the Caribbean: 17 Sustainable Development Initiatives
Latin America is considered a champion of sustainable development, with pioneering initiatives that have been replicated not only across the region, but around the world. Some of the most innovative p...
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Enriching soil fertility worldwide for food security
In the face of growing food insecurity, the issue of land degradation and soil fertility is more crucial than ever. Committed to implementing the ecological and agricultural transition worldwide, AFD...
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Coalition Launches First Call for Biodiversity Projects Worldwide
A new Program to support CSOs that safeguard biodiversity is launching its first call for projects. The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s French Committee is calling for proposals to s...
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Latin America invests in renewable energy to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels
Having marked the International Day of Clean Energy on January 26, we turn our attention to Latin America, where there is huge potential to ramp up renewable energy use. In Argentina, AFD has establis...
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Brazil: more equitable public policies in response to climate change
Brazil’s government and institutions are working together to develop local policies aimed at the communities most vulnerable to climate change. Gender equality and anti-discrimination criteria are now...
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Developing bioeconomics in the Amazon to protect the planet
Reducing environmental degradation requires not only ecosystem preservation, but also economic and social growth. The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, and its inhabitants, have long been at the...
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TerrAmaz: A new partnership to reconcile the fight against deforestation with development in Amazonia
The TerrAmaz project will serve to support Amazonian communities, starting with five pilot territories in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, in the fight against deforestation and the transition to s...
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5 Flagship Projects that are Restoring Nature around the Planet
Close to 40% of the world’s land is degraded, according to the UN, which has made the need to protect biodiversity all the more urgent. AFD Group is convinced that biodiversity conservation and the fi...
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Oceans: A New System to Protect Marine Biodiversity in Argentina - and Beyond
With 5,000 km of coastline, Argentina is working towards establishing, for the first time, a national system to monitor the abundant coastal and marine biodiversity around the country and beyond. By k...
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Protecting Biodiversity: the Key Role of Indigenous Communities
Worldwide, an estimated 400 to 500 million Indigenous people occupy 20% of the earth’s territory. Yet unsustainable development has caused not only the displacement of countless people, but also the d...
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Finance in Common Summit 2023: the Progress Made - and the Road Ahead
In the race against time to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, attention is turning to the more than 500 public development banks worldwide. Their involvement is becoming increasingly urg...
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Taking the Leap: the Cutting-Edge Development Banks Aligning their Activities with the SDGs
At the halfway point to the 2030 deadline, the world is far from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Public development banks however, can play a crucial role. Ahead of the UN General Assembl...
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Helping Mexican Farmers Protect Coffee Crops and Improve Quality ...
Mexico's Chiapas state is famous for its coffee farms, but small farmers have to contend with a host of challenges, from pest control and the vagaries of global markets to the growing impact of climat...
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