Biodiversity Preservation : Special Fund Recommended

The 33rd meeting of the Central African Biodiversity Working Group (Gtbac-33) that ran from February 14 to 18, 2022 in Douala, has recommended that a special fund be dedicated to biodiversity only. This was one of the many recommendations arrived at during the closing ceremony on Friday February 18.
The meeting, organized by the Executive Secretariat of the Central African Forest Commission (Comifac) with the technical and financial support of the GIZ project in support of Comifac and the European Union through the Ecofac 6 Program, brought together all the members of the Gtbac, namely the focal points of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising out of their Utilization (ABS) from the Comifac countries, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, CAR, DRC and Chad. Resource persons, some focal points of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in the sub-region, delegates of development partners and members of civil society organizations including Refadd, Repaleac and Rejefac.
The meeting that took place under the supervision of Mr. Hervé Maidou, Executive S...