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PROGREEN

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PROGREEN is the World Bank-led Global Partnership for Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes designed to improve livelihoods and restore forest landscapes.

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This is truly an innovative W+ standard to support women’s empowerment in Nepal 🇳🇵 @forestideas @WOCANupdates
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Investments in nature are crucial to addressing the climate, #biodiversity, and pollution crises. How is the world going to finance this urgent action? Watch the video and read the Q&A to learn more: wrld.bg/bpuR50Nqq9b #GenerationRestoration #ForNature @forestideas
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Agroforestry is at the heart of the @WorldBank's project in the #DRC to preserve forests. Curious to learn more about agroforestry on #ForestDay? It uses a combination of trees and crops or animals on the same plot. Read more: wrld.bg/ylrS50Nn4J6 @WorldBankAfrica
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Forests are a source of life. They purify #water, clean the air, capture carbon to fight #ClimateChange, provide food and life-saving medicines, and improve our well-being. Learn how we support Indonesia🇮🇩 in protecting its forests 🌳wrld.bg/NVbW50NnUG6 #IntlForestDay
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Forests give us so much🌲🌳 🫧They purify our water 🧽They clean our air 🌎They fight climate change 💊They give us food and life-saving medicines Healthy forests for healthy people 21 March is #ForestDay! #IntlForestDay
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Enriching Women’s Livelihoods with W+ and PROGREEN in Nepal’s Forests. worldbank.org/en/news/featur… via @forestideas @WPlusUpdates @FoluRimpact #Wplus #WomensDay #IWD #forests
Enriching Women’s Livelihoods with W+ and PROGREEN in Nepal’s Forests

Enriching Women’s Livelihoods with W+ and PROGREEN in Nepal’s Forests

In Nepal, PROGREEN is supporting women's economic empowerment through the W+ Initiative. Learn more about the initiative and the impact it had for Nanu Ghatani.

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Protecting wildlife matters for development. Lisa Farroway explains how @WorldBank works to combat wildlife crime and support wildlife-based livelihoods. @ICCWC_WFC #WorldWildlifeDay #WWD23
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Tomorrow is #WorldWildlifeDay! Why is the #ICCWC partnership important & what technical expertise does @WBG_Environment contribute to ICCWC? 📽️ Let's hear from Lisa Farroway, Senior Environmental Specialist. #PartnershipsforConservation #TogetherAgainstWildlifeCrime #WWD2023
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#OneForestSummit, the new One Planet Summit to advance our collective ambition regarding the #preservation & #sustainable management of tropical #forests! See you in Libreville, Gabon, on 1-2 March 🌳
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📢Launched at #COP15! 📍Mapeo for #ICCAs is a new mapping app co-developed by @DigiDem, UNEP-WCMC, and @ForestPeoplesP to help Indigenous peoples and local communities map the territories and areas they are conserving. Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/3iY3iWJ
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IT'S CHAMPION! Not from #WorldCup, but from #COP15. The Trinational Atlantic Forest Pact initiative was recognized by the UN as one of the most promising and relevant in the world! More: ow.ly/7p0z50M2h6V
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Rice farmers in rural #Zambia typically have no income when rice season is over or during periods of drought. Find out how a @WorldBank project is changing farmers’ lives in rural Zambia: wrld.bg/9e5Y50M5BvB
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In addition to reducing sediment loadings, capturing and retaining pollutants, and recycling nutrients, forests, wetlands, and grasslands play an important role in water quality regulation. 🌱🌎 #Fornature #Biodiversity via Jing Zhang- Behance
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“What you see is not only what there is!”​ This idiom - and a young girl with a bunch of cassava leaves at the market- inspired Pierre Damien to start Shekina and a journey to halt #FoodLoss and restore land.​ Watch full video:👉 bit.ly/3EzhOwt​ #GenerationRestoration
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Forests are home to most of Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity. 🌳 🌳 🌳 #Fornature #Biodiversity via @FAOForestry
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🌳🌲Four ways forests can improve our future! Read more about the latest issue of @FAO's forestry journal #Unasylva and download free 👉 bit.ly/3WhI0l6
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Heard about @WorldBank’s #WildlifeConservationBond and want to know more? Check out our feature story for details on how we are working with @theGEF on #InnovativeFinance to protect #BlackRhinos: wrld.bg/q7k850M4sYa #COP15 #ForNature #WB_RhinoBond
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Land restoration, agroforestry practices, and securing sustainable value chains through policy transformation can reduce the risks to forests and #biodiversity. We must act now! #ForNature #COP15
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Related pledges made by companies and governments are less likely to benefit women than men. What can we do to reduce these #gender gaps? Check out our latest #FOLUR blog: ow.ly/TPpv50LZsqn
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#COP15 is a once-in-a-decade chance to make a difference for people & nature. Leaders must commit to reversing nature loss by 2030 #NaturePositive. It’s time to turn promises into action & #Connect2Earth! RT to let world leaders & @UNBiodiversity know the world is watching. @wwf
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What do capital markets have to do with #biodiversity? Until now, very little. That changed with the launch of a landmark Wildlife Conservation Bond– issued by @WorldBank and funded by @theGEF. Learn more: wrld.bg/8i5050IqMNw #WildlifeConservationBond #COP15
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