Workshop Agenda: West Africa Mangroves – A Key to Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
An experts’ workshop on Mangroves and Climate Change in West Africa, organized by FCMC and the US Forest Service (USFS) Office of International Programs, was held in Elmina, Ghana from May 18 – 22, 2014. The workshop brought together 48 practitioners, policy makers and researchers from the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana. In addition to those from USFS and FCMC technical resource experts from Cameroon, Nigeria, and Senegal also contributed. Regional research and policy institutions, such as the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Mano River Union (MRU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) also participated as did representatives from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from Washington and the West Africa Regional Mission.
https://biodiversitylinks.org/projects/completed-projects/forest-carbon-markets-and-communities-fcmc-project/archived-news-events/workshops/west-africa-mangroves-2013-a-key-to-climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation/workshop-agenda/view
https://biodiversitylinks.org/projects/completed-projects/forest-carbon-markets-and-communities-fcmc-project/archived-news-events/workshops/west-africa-mangroves-2013-a-key-to-climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation/workshop-agenda/@@download/image/image.png
File
Workshop Agenda: West Africa Mangroves – A Key to Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
An experts’ workshop on Mangroves and Climate Change in West Africa, organized by FCMC and the US Forest Service (USFS) Office of International Programs, was held in Elmina, Ghana from May 18 – 22, 2014. The workshop brought together 48 practitioners, policy makers and researchers from the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana. In addition to those from USFS and FCMC technical resource experts from Cameroon, Nigeria, and Senegal also contributed. Regional research and policy institutions, such as the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Mano River Union (MRU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) also participated as did representatives from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from Washington and the West Africa Regional Mission.
