The ICCF Group

JUST PASSED: U.S. Foundation for International Conservation Act, to mobilize public and private funding for people and wild places. ICCF is proud to support the caucus with Senator Christopher Coons, Senator Lindsey Graham, House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, Representative Dave Joyce, and Representative Betty McCollum, and applauds them for this key conservation victory. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eS8JPiju

IN SPANISH - Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: El Caucus de los Océanos de Colombia radicó el proyecto de ley que promueve y fomenta la conservación de los manglares a través del trabajo de las piangueras en el pacífico colombiano. Junto con el Representante Carlos Ardila, el Senador Germán Blanco y más de 30 Parlamentarios que acompa?an la iniciativa, el Proyecto de Ley promueve, protege y fomenta el trabajo y la tradición ancestral en el manglar por parte de más de 11.300 familias de mujeres afrodescendientes en Colombia.

On February 13, the ICCF Group hosted a workshop for the Angolan Parliamentary Caucus for Conservation and Sustainable Environment titled "Preventing Future Zoonotic Pandemics: Strengthening National Legal Frameworks and International Cooperation." The event highlighted legal frameworks governing wildlife and zoonotic diseases to translate knowledge into legal responses and provide policy tools for legal?evaluation. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eeaqWQ5G

HAPPENING LIVE: Launch of the Suriname Conservation Caucus in the city of Paramaribo, with the leadership of the National Assembly of Suriname, the technical secretariat of the ICCF Group, and the support of Conservation International

On January 21, the Peruvian Congress declared February 12 the Day of the Peruvian Amazon, to recognize its environmental, scientific, and cultural value. We are proud to support the author of the law, Congress Member KAROL IVETT PAREDES FONSECA, Co-Chair of the Peruvian Conservation?Caucus.

ICCF Colombia celebrates the approval in the first debate of Bill 394 of 2024 by the Second Committee of the House of Representatives, led by Elizabeth Jay-Pang Díaz, member of the Oceans Caucus. This bill aims to ratify the Agreement on Port State Measures to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, adopted in Rome on November 22, 2009.

Trafigura is proud to announce the first pilot of the #MiomboRestorationAlliance this week at #COP29 with the government of Mozambique for a greenfield restoration project aligned with VM0047 ABACUS to produce carbon removals under Article 6. This week in #Baku we presented the first pilot and process in a workshop with the 11 governments in the Miombo - encouraging transparency and alignment across the region as the Alliance scales, with the next three pilots expected to be finalized by the end of the year. How fitting to kick off this partnership at the #FinanceCOP and with the backdrop of successful agreement of #Article6 in the same week. Thanks again to the leadership of Mozambique and the other African nations in Miombo - and to the vital role of The ICCF Group as secretariat and our other NGO partners in supporting this endeavor. This milestone comes less than 8 weeks after launching at NYCW - and we’ve only just begun ! ?????? https://lnkd.in/gYSg5Zne

Trafigura is proud to announce the first pilot of the #MiomboRestorationAlliance this week at #COP29 with the government of Mozambique for a greenfield restoration project aligned with VM0047 ABACUS to produce carbon removals under Article 6. This week in #Baku we presented the first pilot and process in a workshop with the 11 governments in the Miombo - encouraging transparency and alignment across the region as the Alliance scales, with the next three pilots expected to be finalized by the end of the year. How fitting to kick off this partnership at the #FinanceCOP and with the backdrop of successful agreement of #Article6 in the same week. Thanks again to the leadership of Mozambique and the other African nations in Miombo - and to the vital role of The ICCF Group as secretariat and our other NGO partners in supporting this endeavor. This milestone comes less than 8 weeks after launching at NYCW - and we’ve only just begun ! ?????? https://lnkd.in/gYSg5Zne

For the?UN Biodiversity?Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (#KMGBF) to succeed, the?ultimate goal?is to fully – 100 percent – align public and private investments with nature-positive activity. We are currently far from getting there. But change happens step-by-step, and at?#COP16Colombia?in Cali I have been energized by many practical, purposeful discussions about how transforming harmful subsidies can unlock new incentives that benefit #biodiversity.? ? This was the experience in Costa Rica, where so much changed when farmers began being adequately compensated for keeping forests on their land intact. When these?Global Environment Facility-supported Payment for Ecosystem Services were introduced, they changed mindsets and behaviors, resulting in safeguarded key biodiversity corridors and helping to propel reforestation at a national scale.? ? Subsidy reform can seem daunting or even?impossible?but this is an area with tremendous potential. Being specific about identifying more sustainable ways to fish, farm, and produce energy, and repurposing public support toward these nature-positive practices, in partnership with the private sector and multilateral development banks, can lead us somewhere new. Thank you?Max Andonirina Fontaine, Barry Gardiner MP, Astrid Schomaker, A Prasad, Avril Benchimol, Matthew Reddy?for an excellent side event on the power of #KMGBF Target 18, building on our full-day conference held in partnership with Colombia's Ministry of Environment,?UN Biodiversity's Secretariat,?Conservation International, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The ICCF Group, The Nature Conservancy, The World Bank, World Economic Forum?and moderated by the inimitable GEF STAP Chair?Rosina Bierbaum. #GEFatCOP16Colombia | COP16 Colombia

Watch Now! UK leaders of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on International Conservation answer questions from The Wildlife Trusts at #COP16: https://lnkd.in/eA-G7Pnk