Deforestation and land-use changes are one of the main PROAmazonia, Ecuador’s main national REDD+ investment programme, is an initiative by the Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Agriculture and UNDP, and funded by the GCF and Global Environmental Fund (GEF). by Antonio José Paz Cardona on 4 September 2019 | Translated by … Those areas expand across the Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and with the most noticeable changes measured in Brazil, which is responsible for half of the deforestation in the Amazon. The decision praised Ecuador’s efforts and commitment to implement environmental initiatives and policies for forest conservation and promotion of the sustainable use of biodiversity.

To this end under the leadership of the With the approval of the four new projects, UNDP has supported a total of 23 countries to access more than $785.7 million in GCF finance for full-sized climate change projects.Climate change is a priority for UNDP. Each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) is rewarded at a value of five USD. To this end under the leadership of the With the approval of the four new projects, UNDP has supported a total of 23 countries to access more than $785.7 million in GCF finance for full-sized climate change projects.Climate change is a priority for UNDP. Quito, Ecuador. * That is twice the size of Yellowstone National Park. Our EIN or tax ID is 45-3714703. The organization is the largest implementer of climate action in the UN System, supporting over 700 projects, in 140 countries of a total value exceeding US$ 3 billion. In Ecuador, it has been one of the most affected by deforestation in recent decades.The threats are many.

Mongabay is a U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform. Spanning nearly 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) along the coast, Ecuador’s Chocó region is known as a biodiversity hotspot with high levels of endemism, among the richest region for plants in the western hemisphere. 2020 The country went from annual net deforestation of 92,742 hectares in the period 1990-2000, to 47,497 hectares in the period 2008-2014.The payment from the GCF will strengthen the next six years the implementation of REDD+ action plans. The organization is the largest implementer of climate action in the UN System, supporting over 700 projects, in 140 countries of a total value exceeding US$ 3 billion. Over the course of these four years Ecuador achieved a total of 112 million tonnes emission reductions. MAAP’s data and images show that 99 percent of the park’s forests were in good condition as of 2018.Schaefer from Fundación Jocotoco said Cotacachi-Cayapas remains important because it still has extensive forest coverage. According to Carmen Josse, scientific director of Fundación EcoCiencia, in Ecuador, these include industrial oil palm plantations as well as legal and illegal logging and mining.   Decides to establish an information hub on the REDD Web Platform, to publish information on the results and corresponding results-based payments4. In 2019, the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment, together with the The EU REDD Facility engages in Ecuador upon request and in collaboration with PROAmazonia and the Ministries of Environment and Agriculture, to support the development of a transparent traceability system to monitor and track sustainable zero-deforestation cocoa.The EU REDD Facility supports countries in improving land-use governance as part of their efforts to slow, halt and reverse deforestation. Some trends are going up- in Ecuador, where the determining drivers are agriculture, … Newly released data for 2019 reveals the loss of over 1.7 million hectares (4.3 million acres) of primary Amazon forest in our 5 country study area (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).