Central African Forest Initiative

🤝 Peaceful coexistence works.

With support from CAFI and backing from The WCS and Space For Giants, Gabon 🇬🇦 is reducing conflicts between humans and wildlife while protecting ecosystems.

#Coexistence #Gabon #Partnerships #Impact #ForestsOfTheCongoBowl

274 MILLION LIVES TRANSFORMED 🌍

37.41M direct jobs + 274M people with better food/energy access.

Conservation + Human Development = PES winning equation.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #HumanImpact #PES

HIGH-TECH, SIMPLE TO USE 💻

PES tool uses AI, blockchain, remote sensing. But remains simple and intuitive.

Tech is only powerful when accessible to all.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #AI #Blockchain #PES #TechForGood

RESULTS-DRIVEN 💳

Payments only if results verified. Sent by phone, voucher, or bank transfer.

PES tool tracks everything transparently.
No results = No payment. Simple, direct, fair.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #DirectPayment #PES

FULLY TRANSPARENT 🔍
PES results verified by:
✅Geotagged photos, satellites
✅Local NGO data (mobile)
✅Independent audit

Trust + Technology + Verification = Total Credibility.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #Transparency #PES

SMART CONTRACTING 📝

PES tool instantly creates and tracks contracts in bulk.
Thousands of contracts managed efficiently, transparently, securely through technology.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #SmartContract #PES #Blockchain

ENROLLMENT: SIMPLE, FAIR, FAST ✅

4 transparent steps:
1. Learn rules
2. Verify land rights
3. Process application
4. Final selection

Technology serving equity.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #PES #Transparency

🌳🌍CAFI receives $44,5 million from Norway for the forests of the Congo Basin in 2025.

🤝 A strong commitment to climate, biodiversity, and local communities. See our results👇
cafi.org/accomplishme...

#CAFI #CongoBasin #ClimateAction #Partnerships

🌍🌳 CAFI receives $9 million from United Kingdom for the forests of the Congo Basin in 2025.

A strong commitment to climate, biodiversity, and local communities. See our results👉 cafi.org/accomplishme...

#CongoBasin #Forests #CAFI #Climate

DEVELOPED WITH 6 CENTRAL AFRICAN NATIONS 🤝

DRC, Gabon, Congo, Cameroon, CAR, Equatorial Guinea: African leadership for African innovation.

Local needs + national priorities + global climate action.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #AfricanLeadership #PES

🌍🌳 CAFI receives $34 million from Germany for the forests of the Congo Basin in 2025.

A strong commitment to climate, biodiversity, and local communities. See our results👉 cafi.org/accomplishme...

#CAFI #CongoBasin #ClimateAction #Partnerships @bmz.de

REWARDING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES 🌱
PES rewards good practices: planting trees, deforestation-free farming.

6 eligible activities to transform agriculture and protect forests.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #Agroforestry #PES

DRIVING CLIMATE ACTION 🚀

An innovative mechanism directly rewarding those who protect the world's most vital ecosystems.

Forest guardians deserve compensation.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #ClimateAction #PES

PERFORMANCE-BASED FUNDING 💰

PES transforms conservation into direct, transparent, verified financial returns for communities and Indigenous peoples.
Results paid, not intentions.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #ClimateFinance #PES

PES generates 37.41M direct jobs and improves food/energy access for 274M people🌳

Protecting forests = transforming lives.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #SustainableDevelopment #PES

6× CONSERVATION WIN 🛡️

PES protects 6.77M hectares of forest, reversing 6× the 2022 deforestation rate. Measurable conservation = real results.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #ForestConservation #PES

📢 Scientific Panel for the Congo Basin launches the executive summary of “Congo Basin Resilience and Sustainability.”

A landmark scientific reference for guiding conservation and sustainable development.

Emma Torres thanks #CAFI for its support.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #PSE #BassinDuCongo

7× CLIMATE IMPACT 🌍

CAFI's PES could sequester 4.8 gigatons of CO2e annually—7× the Congo Basin's 2022 emissions.
Operational, verified, performance-based mechanism.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #ClimateAction #PES

271.2 MILLION HECTARES of untapped potential for PES in Central Africa 🌳🌳

Congo Basin countries are transforming climate finance into concrete action. The potential is
there. Innovation is ready.

#COP30 #ADecadeWithCAFI #PES #CongoBasin

📢 Major breakthrough for #PSEs in DRC/ Congo Basin.

With #CAFI support, WWF makes the first collective mobile payment in the DRC via the PSE Management Tool.

The Lewo community receives its first payment for its verified forest regeneration results. 🌿

@bmz.de @unops.org

Avec l’appui de #CAFI, le Panel scientifique du Bassin du Congo lance son Rapport 2025 à la #COP30 🌍 avec des propositions concrètes pour la restauration des forêts 🌳les financements innovants 💰 et les marchés carbone 🌿

Écoutez Mme Arlette Sourdan-Nonault👇

@bmz.de @norad.no #COP30

🚨 Breaking news

CAFI launches a $100M call for expressions of interest to scale up #PSE in the region, bringing the 2025 PSE envelope to $125M.
🌳 300k ha covered
👥 130k beneficiaries
🌍 2.5M tCO₂ sequestered

Thanks to all partners for their support @bmz.de @norad.no #COP30

🚨 At #COP30, #CAFI is showcasing how Congo Basin countries leverage PES to channel climate finance directly to forest guardians.
📆 18 Nov • 🕒 3–4 PM • 📍 DRC Pavilion
#Forests #ClimateAction #CongoBasin @norad.no @alainnoudehou.bsky.social #RDC #Congo #Gabon

CAFI has a new partner ! Costa Rica brings its vast experience on Payments for Environmental Services to support Central African countries

@un-mptf-office.bsky.social @norwaymfa.government.no @fcdoinclusion.bsky.social @bmzclimate.bsky.social @netherlandsmfa.bsky.social @swedishmfa.bsky.social

🗣️ “No country can tackle climate change alone.”: Costa Rica’s entry today into the CAFI partnership deepens South-South cooperation, boosting shared learning between tropical forest nations. 🌎 #CAFI #Biodiversity #Geneva

@gabonmediatime.bsky.social @norwaymfa.government.no

🌍 On #WorldEnvironmentDay, Costa Rica joins the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI)! A global leader in forest recovery, Costa Rica brings decades of success and innovation to support Central Africa’s climate and development goals. 🌱🌳 #ClimateAction #SouthSouthCooperation

CAFI launches a new Call for Expressions of Interest in the DRCongo ! We're looking to select implementing organizations to develop projects under the Payments for Environmental Services Programme on the Kinshasa Supply Basin.

↪️All information here : www.cafi.org/node/1136

Collecting climate data at Yangambi Research Station, DRC. Credit: Nichole Sobecki

Feature in April 2025 National Geographic reveals the story of a new vanguard of central African scientists who are striving to understand the ecosystems of the Congo Basin at a time when it is needed most: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

Bank of America, Central Africa Forest Initiative, Good Energies Foundation, and UBS Optimus Foundation Support HIFOR Initiative to Conserve High-Integrity Tropical Forests Globally New York, NY, April 28, 2025 – The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is proud to announce that Bank of America, the Central Africa Forest Initiative (CAFI), the Good Energies Foundation, and the UBS...

Announcing CAFI's collaboration w. High Integrity Forest Investment Initiative !
💽 generate data to help define High Value Forests in #DRC and HCS/HVC Forests in #Congo and #Gabon
🙌inform Land-Use Planning decision-making, in synergy with processes that CAFI projects support

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🌍🌱This #EarthDay we celebrate funds like @cafisecretariat.bsky.social that empower high-forest cover countries in Central #Africa to fight forest loss & poverty.

Using joint-country roadmaps, they chart paths for people & planet: mptf.undp.org/fund/afi00 #ClimateAction #SDGs #earthmonth2025