🤝 Peaceful coexistence works. With support from CAFI and backing from The WCS and Space For Giants, Gabon 🇬🇦 is reducing conflicts between humans and wildlife while protecting ecosystems. #Coexistence #Gabon #Partnerships #Impact #ForestsOfTheCongoBowl

274 MILLION LIVES TRANSFORMED 🌍 37.41M direct jobs + 274M people with better food/energy access. Conservation + Human Development = PES winning equation. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #HumanImpact #PES

HIGH-TECH, SIMPLE TO USE 💻 PES tool uses AI, blockchain, remote sensing. But remains simple and intuitive. Tech is only powerful when accessible to all. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #AI #Blockchain #PES #TechForGood

RESULTS-DRIVEN 💳 Payments only if results verified. Sent by phone, voucher, or bank transfer. PES tool tracks everything transparently. No results = No payment. Simple, direct, fair. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #DirectPayment #PES

FULLY TRANSPARENT 🔍 PES results verified by: ✅Geotagged photos, satellites ✅Local NGO data (mobile) ✅Independent audit Trust + Technology + Verification = Total Credibility. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #Transparency #PES

SMART CONTRACTING 📝 PES tool instantly creates and tracks contracts in bulk. Thousands of contracts managed efficiently, transparently, securely through technology. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #SmartContract #PES #Blockchain

ENROLLMENT: SIMPLE, FAIR, FAST ✅ 4 transparent steps: 1. Learn rules 2. Verify land rights 3. Process application 4. Final selection Technology serving equity. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #PES #Transparency

🌳🌍CAFI receives $44,5 million from Norway for the forests of the Congo Basin in 2025. 🤝 A strong commitment to climate, biodiversity, and local communities. See our results👇 cafi.org/accomplishme... #CAFI #CongoBasin #ClimateAction #Partnerships

🌍🌳 CAFI receives $9 million from United Kingdom for the forests of the Congo Basin in 2025. A strong commitment to climate, biodiversity, and local communities. See our results👉 cafi.org/accomplishme... #CongoBasin #Forests #CAFI #Climate

DEVELOPED WITH 6 CENTRAL AFRICAN NATIONS 🤝 DRC, Gabon, Congo, Cameroon, CAR, Equatorial Guinea: African leadership for African innovation. Local needs + national priorities + global climate action. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #AfricanLeadership #PES

🌍🌳 CAFI receives $34 million from Germany for the forests of the Congo Basin in 2025. A strong commitment to climate, biodiversity, and local communities. See our results👉 cafi.org/accomplishme... #CAFI #CongoBasin #ClimateAction #Partnerships @bmz.de

REWARDING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES 🌱 PES rewards good practices: planting trees, deforestation-free farming. 6 eligible activities to transform agriculture and protect forests. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #Agroforestry #PES

DRIVING CLIMATE ACTION 🚀 An innovative mechanism directly rewarding those who protect the world's most vital ecosystems. Forest guardians deserve compensation. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #ClimateAction #PES

PERFORMANCE-BASED FUNDING 💰 PES transforms conservation into direct, transparent, verified financial returns for communities and Indigenous peoples. Results paid, not intentions. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #ClimateFinance #PES

PES generates 37.41M direct jobs and improves food/energy access for 274M people🌳 Protecting forests = transforming lives. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #SustainableDevelopment #PES

6× CONSERVATION WIN 🛡️ PES protects 6.77M hectares of forest, reversing 6× the 2022 deforestation rate. Measurable conservation = real results. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #ForestConservation #PES

📢 Scientific Panel for the Congo Basin launches the executive summary of “Congo Basin Resilience and Sustainability.” A landmark scientific reference for guiding conservation and sustainable development. Emma Torres thanks #CAFI for its support. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #PSE #BassinDuCongo

7× CLIMATE IMPACT 🌍 CAFI's PES could sequester 4.8 gigatons of CO2e annually—7× the Congo Basin's 2022 emissions. Operational, verified, performance-based mechanism. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #ClimateAction #PES

271.2 MILLION HECTARES of untapped potential for PES in Central Africa 🌳🌳 Congo Basin countries are transforming climate finance into concrete action. The potential is there. Innovation is ready. #COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #PES #CongoBasin

📢 Major breakthrough for #PSEs in DRC/ Congo Basin. With #CAFI support, WWF makes the first collective mobile payment in the DRC via the PSE Management Tool. The Lewo community receives its first payment for its verified forest regeneration results. 🌿 @bmz.de @unops.org

Avec l’appui de #CAFI, le Panel scientifique du Bassin du Congo lance son Rapport 2025 à la #COP30 🌍 avec des propositions concrètes pour la restauration des forêts 🌳les financements innovants 💰 et les marchés carbone 🌿 Écoutez Mme Arlette Sourdan-Nonault👇 @bmz.de @norad.no #COP30

🚨 Breaking news CAFI launches a $100M call for expressions of interest to scale up #PSE in the region, bringing the 2025 PSE envelope to $125M. 🌳 300k ha covered 👥 130k beneficiaries 🌍 2.5M tCO₂ sequestered Thanks to all partners for their support @bmz.de @norad.no #COP30

🚨 At #COP30, #CAFI is showcasing how Congo Basin countries leverage PES to channel climate finance directly to forest guardians. 📆 18 Nov • 🕒 3–4 PM • 📍 DRC Pavilion #Forests #ClimateAction #CongoBasin @norad.no @alainnoudehou.bsky.social #RDC #Congo #Gabon

CAFI has a new partner ! Costa Rica brings its vast experience on Payments for Environmental Services to support Central African countries @un-mptf-office.bsky.social @norwaymfa.government.no @fcdoinclusion.bsky.social @bmzclimate.bsky.social @netherlandsmfa.bsky.social @swedishmfa.bsky.social

🗣️ “No country can tackle climate change alone.”: Costa Rica’s entry today into the CAFI partnership deepens South-South cooperation, boosting shared learning between tropical forest nations. 🌎 #CAFI #Biodiversity #Geneva @gabonmediatime.bsky.social @norwaymfa.government.no

🌍 On #WorldEnvironmentDay, Costa Rica joins the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI)! A global leader in forest recovery, Costa Rica brings decades of success and innovation to support Central Africa’s climate and development goals. 🌱🌳 #ClimateAction #SouthSouthCooperation

CAFI launches a new Call for Expressions of Interest in the DRCongo ! We're looking to select implementing organizations to develop projects under the Payments for Environmental Services Programme on the Kinshasa Supply Basin. ↪️All information here : www.cafi.org/node/1136

Feature in April 2025 National Geographic reveals the story of a new vanguard of central African scientists who are striving to understand the ecosystems of the Congo Basin at a time when it is needed most: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

Announcing CAFI's collaboration w. High Integrity Forest Investment Initiative ! 💽 generate data to help define High Value Forests in #DRC and HCS/HVC Forests in #Congo and #Gabon 🙌inform Land-Use Planning decision-making, in synergy with processes that CAFI projects support ➡️tiny.cc/0c0i001

🌍🌱This #EarthDay we celebrate funds like @cafisecretariat.bsky.social that empower high-forest cover countries in Central #Africa to fight forest loss & poverty. Using joint-country roadmaps, they chart paths for people & planet: mptf.undp.org/fund/afi00 #ClimateAction #SDGs #earthmonth2025

As our project in the Mai Ndombe province of the #DRCongo is coming to an end, let's rewatch this video by our #WorldBank partners, highlighting the connection between people’s daily food and energy needs and ongoing forest degradation youtu.be/2IDWvwR_ojQ?... @fonaredd.bsky.social @norad.no

💲🌳Payments for Environmental services - a more equitable, efficient, innovative & financially sustainable tool to protect forests & enhance rural well-being. After the first regional even last Jan., DRC ministers, parliament and partners gathered last week to launch the "PES roadmap to Belem"".

What a thrill to hold this month’s issue of National Geographic magazine and open it to see the faces and words of Congolese researchers studying the Congo Basin rainforest splashed across 24 pages of this iconic publication 🌱🌍🔬

"It's the world's most critical rainforest, and you probably can't name it" Excellent piece by @melaniegouby.bsky.social @nationalgeographic.bsky.social on the new generation of Central African researchers revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet. www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

Land-use planning, agriculture, environment, mining : all sectors in DRC are needed to reduce deforestation and reach ambitious development objectives. Our multi- sector project to achieve milestones in the Letter of Intent between #CAFI and the #DRC held its 1st meeting of the Steering Committee

📽️ Have you seen the latest from Enabel ? Walk thru results & testimonies of beneficiaries of the PIREDD Mongala of the DRC, funded by CAFI & @fonaredd.bsky.social youtu.be/hEOfbozSN84?... 🙌 netherlandsmfa.bsky.social wedishmfa.bsky.social bmzclimate.bsky.social norwaymfa.government.no norad.no

En images et en francais, l'installation de la première clôture électrifiée financée par CAFI youtu.be/MRTh2y1pUy0 pour la coexistence pacifique entre humains et éléphants au Gabon, avec @wcs.org et l'expertise de SpaceForGiants

While this is the inaugural installation, in total, 1️⃣8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣fences (100 per province per year), benefiting 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣rural stakeholders, will be funded by CAFI under this project with @wcs.org and #ANPN

A first giant step to ⬇️ human-elephant 🐘 conflicts in Gabon and ↗️food security : installation by Gabon Minister of Waters and Forests Maurice Allogo of the first electrified fence to protect from elephants raids, under the new CAFI project with @wcs.org #SpaceforGiants and #ANPN

Improved cookstoves = Less deforestation! With the LITUKA project, CAFI & ID Congo are building a sustainable supply chain for clean cooking solutions in Brazzaville & Pointe-Noire. 🌿 Less wood consumption 🌳 Forest protection #CleanCooking #Forests #ClimateAction #Congo #CAFI

🌱 Payments for Environmental Services (PES) make a difference! By rewarding farmers for verified activities such as deforestation-free crops, sustainable agriculture becomes a reality. Sustainability pays off! 💡💰 #GrowingFoodToSaveForests #PSE

Perennial crops for a greener future. Cocoa, coffee, and other agroforestry systems boost food security while preserving ecosystems. Let’s choose nature-friendly farming! ☕🍫 #DeforestationFreeCrops #ForestDay2025

🌎 A healthy planet starts with healthy forests. Forests regulate water cycles, enrich soils, and provide essential nutrition. Let’s grow food while keeping forests standing! 🌿💧 #ForestDay2025 #SustainableAgriculture

🍽️ Forests feed us. From fruits and nuts to medicinal plants, millions rely on forests for food and income. Protecting them means securing our future. 🌳🌰 #GrowingFoodToSaveForests #ForestDay2025

As we celebrate #ForestDay and how they provide food & nutrition, let's remember how Payments for environmental services - such as paying for verified hectares of agroforestry🌴🌳 and perennial crops🌽- can alleviate poverty and malnutrition in Central African countries @fao.org @fonaredd.bsky.social

Today is International #ForestDay! Celebrate how they nourish the people. 6️⃣8️⃣M people suffer from malnutrition in the Congo Basin. #CAFI funds 🌽agriculture (and honey 🐝!) - 9 projects in DRC [email protected], 2 in Gabon & 1 in Rep Congo - 🤎deforestation-free cocoa & coffee in Cameroon

Got one minute to understand Payments for Environmental Services and what they mean for Central African forests and populations ? Check out this video in English and follow our PES playlist on Youtube ! ➡️https://youtu.be/I5w0BCWBXaQ?feature=shared

Ces succès sont le fruit du travail de @afd-france.bsky.social avec nos partenaires du @fonaredd.bsky.social et financement #CAFI, dans le cadre du projet de mise en valeur des savanes et forêts dégradées. Plus d'infos ici ! cafi.org/fr/pays-part...

We are delighted to hear that @fonaredd.bsky.social, our partner in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has joined us on Bluesky ! @afd-france.bsky.social @congopeat.bsky.social @congobasinscience.bsky.social