Amazon Evening: A South-South Exchange with Africa
Event organized by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). With billions of dollars pledged to help safeguard the world's forests in order to slow the pace of climate change, there is an increasing urgency for all regions of the forested tropics to share experiences on how to best manage those forests for their sustainable use and for the benefit of their people.
Event organized by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). With billions of dollars pledged to help safeguard the world's forests in order to slow the pace of climate change, there is an increasing urgency for all regions of the forested tropics to share experiences on how to best manage those forests for their sustainable use and for the benefit of their people.
In this half-day conference on the sidelines of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties, experts on the Amazon Basin, home to the world's largest tropical forest and dozens of REDD+ pilot projects, will meet with scientists from Africa, home to the second-largest tropical forest, to share experiences and discuss challenges and opportunities for the coming years.
The conference, titled Amazon Evening: A South-South Exchange with Africa, is jointly hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Fundação Amazonas Sustentável (FAS, Amazonas Sustainable Foundation). It will be held from 2 pm on December 2 at the Suncoast Conference Centre in Durban, South Africa.
This will be the second Amazon Evening. The first was held on the sidelines of COP16 in Cancún in 2010 and was attended by about 300 international stakeholders.