Côte d'Ivoire Announcements
A new video has been launched highlighting lessons and experiences on Safeguards from Africa. The video provides key lessons learned and experiences from participating countries in the UN-REDD Programme Africa Regional Exchange on Country Approaches to Safeguards held in Nairobi in June 2015. The workshop brought together 33 participants from 19 African countries, and 3 participants from Costa Rica, Mexico and Viet Nam. The video highlights participating countries’ opportunity to share experiences and jointly build capacities on country approaches to the Cancun safeguards during South-South Learning Exchanges.
The three-day Knowledge Exchange on Policies and Measures in the framework of the REDD+ strategy launched today, 25 September 2015 in Abidjan with the participation of Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tunisia and Cote D’Ivoire. The workshop is organized by the UN-REDD Programme's regional Africa office and provides the space for learning and exchange of experiences between countries on the development of REDD + policies and measures.
Selon le Ministre Allah-Kouadio Rémi, «l’agriculture zéro-déforestation» en Côte d’Ivoire est une agriculture qui protège les forêts restantes et qui contribue à la restauration du couvert forestier. Elle augmente la résistance des cultures face aux impacts du changement climatique et permet d’améliorer les moyens de subsistance des populations. C’est un concept qui entend contribuer à atteindre notre objectif national et réaffirmer par la même occasion la nouvelle loi forestière qui exige une couverture forestière de 20%», a-t-il soutenu.
As per an intersessional decision of the Policy Board on 3 June, Côte d'Ivoire became a UN-REDD partner country.