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"Côte d'Ivoire's program for reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be submitted to the technical and financial partners before being finalized in September 2018 … Thus, the country should be able to mobilize more than 200 million billion, or nearly 112 billion FCFA for the implementation of the REDD + project, "reports a statement from this institution sent Wednesday to APA.
Four regions of the country (Guémon, Cavally, Nawa and San-Pédro), highlights the communiqué, have been identified for the effective start of REDD +, the preparatory work of which has just been completed.
Last Thursday in Abidjan, the National Committee and the Interministerial Technical Committee of REDD +, validated the "Readiness-package", a document which made it possible to take stock of the progress made by Côte d'Ivoire since the validation of its plan of preparing for REDD + and defining the actions to be taken to get to the stage of carrying out activities.
"The preparatory phase of REDD + Côte d'Ivoire is making significant progress of 8.8% in May 2016 in 58.8% in July 2018, "said the document quoting Colonel Ernest Ahoulou, Permanent Executive Secretary of this international mechanism in Côte d'Ivoire.
The country has lost more than 75% of its forests in 50 years, from 16 million hectares in 1960 to 3.4 million hectares in 2015.
The international REDD + mechanism, born in 2005, is an mitigation of climate change. Côte d'Ivoire has joined this international mechanism since June 2011 to contribute to international efforts to combat climate change and restore its forest cover.
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