2016: A unique opportunity to get it right on forests and climate change

If ever there was a year to make significant progress on forest conservation and climate change, it was 2016. Coming on the heels of the historic COP21 Paris Agreement, 2016 was a year to demonstrate the commitment the World Bank Group has to support countries as they take forward their nationally determined contributions to address our global climate change challenge. It’s gratifying to look back on 2016 and feel that we contributed to harnessing this momentum and sense of urgency; especially in showing how sustainable land use, including sustainable forest management, is critical to achieving the ambitious targets set out in the Paris Agreement.
- Tags:
- capacity building
- forest action plan
- REDD+
- deforestation
- forest conservation
- sustainable land management
- Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
- forests
- climate finance
- Climate Change
- Environment
- Climate Change
- South Asia
- Latin America & Caribbean
- Africa
- Costa Rica
- Nicaragua
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Madagascar
- Cambodia
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Congo, Republic of
- Ghana
- Chile
- Peru
- Thailand
- Zambia
- Ethiopia
- Colombia
- Mexico