Focus on Arts and Ecology

Dear colleagues

 

It is a great pleasure to let you know that the President of Ecuador recently launched the Amazon Program for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Production (UNDP-GCF-GEF).

 

This program aims at reducing deforestation in Ecuador to mitigate climate change. It will do so by implementing the policies and measures prioritized in the National REDD+ Action Plan. With finance from both GCF and GEF, the initiative brings together Ministries of Environment, Agriculture, Foreign Trade, National Financial Institutions and the cacao, palm, cattle and coffee private sector in a new partnership to integrate commodity supply chain initiatives, domestic policies and finance, and international finance for REDD+ in coherent set of policies to address deforestation.

 

More details are available here and here.

 

I’ll be delighted to respond to the questions or suggestions you may have regarding this new initiative.  

 

Best regards

Pierre GUEDEZ