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Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program: Amazon Sustainable Landscapes
Under the 7th GEF replenishment, GEF-7, Impact Programs (IPs) on Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR); Sustainable Forest Management (SFM); and Sustainable Cities are being developed to address the drivers of environmental degradation, and to support transformational change in these key systems.
This publication provides an overview of the Amazon Sustainable Landscape Program's second phase (ASL-2), which builds upon ASL-1 to strengthen integrated landscape management and conservation of ecosystems in the Amazon region.
Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program
The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) is an initiative funded by the GEF to protect globally significant biodiversity and implement policies to foster sustainable land use and restoration of native vegetation cover.
Three countries participate in the program—Brazil, Colombia and Peru—together covering more than 75% of the Amazon territory. The program was approved by the GEF Council in October 2015 as an Integrated Approach Pilot with incentives for an integrated regional approach under the Sustainable Forest Management Strategy.
GEF CEO welcomes cooperation pact to protect the Amazon basin
The Global Environment Facility CEO and Chairperson, Naoko Ishii, welcomes the commitment by heads of state from seven countries in the Amazon basin to work more closely together to value forests, protect biodiversity, and fight against deforestation and land degradation across the biome.
New Regional Program to Protect the Amazon
Joint World Bank Group/Global Environment Facility Press Release
GEF project gives boost to climate action
Washington DC, October 21, 2015 – The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council approved today a first-of-its-kind multi-million dollar project to help protect over 80 percent of the Amazon and boost efforts to combat climate change.