International Surroundings Facility to finance tasks in 23 Latin American and Caribbean international locations
Initiatives supported by FAO’s regional workplace search to extend resilience to local weather change, biodiversity loss and soil degradation.
June 21, 2024, Santiago de Chile –
The International Surroundings Facility (GEF) introduced this week that it’ll finance tasks in 23 Latin American and Caribbean international locations that handle city sustainability, groundwater administration, biodiversity loss, local weather change and soil degradation.
The initiatives have the help of the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO) and their implementation will contribute to the event of key work methods of the group within the area.
“FAO is working intently with our Member States to advertise a method to mobilize local weather finance for modern initiatives resembling greenhouse optimization, soil and land mapping. We’re supporting governments and communities in constructing capacities for complete threat administration as a way to enhance the resilience of livelihoods and worth chains,” mentioned FAO Assistant Director-Normal and Regional Consultant for Latin America and the Caribbean, Mario Lubetkin.
In South America, Chile was awarded a fund that seeks – with help from FAO – to strengthen ecosystems and inexperienced infrastructure networks that present options for biodiversity and local weather change mitigation and adaptation in 4 cities. The undertaking goals to enhance practices in additional than 1,325,000 hectares of landscapes, mitigate greater than 14,900 metric tons of greenhouse fuel emissions and straight profit practically 732,000 individuals.
In Central America, in the meantime, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic will collaborate in increasing a administration method from supply to sea to comprehensively handle continental sources and ecosystems coastal. The undertaking will enhance the biodiversity, water safety and blue economic system of 12 giant watersheds and the massive Caribbean and Pacific marine ecosystems that flank the international locations. The undertaking goals to enhance the administration of greater than 1.8 million hectares of terrestrial and marine protected areas, restore 300 hectares of wetlands, enhance practices in additional than 353,000 hectares of landscapes and straight profit 350,000 individuals.
Within the Caribbean, 14 international locations (Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago) will enhance sustainable land administration within the second section of the SOILCARE initiative. The undertaking will assist Small Island Creating States handle land sources for extra productive and climate-resilient agri-food methods and livelihoods by supporting international locations to attain land degradation neutrality targets. The undertaking goals to revive 28,000 hectares of agricultural land, enhance administration of virtually 70,000 hectares of land and straight profit no less than 6,900 farmers.
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