The One Planet Summit relaunches the Great Green Wall

The first One Planet Summit dedicated to biodiversity, organized by France, on Monday January 11, 2021 (by videoconference, the President of the DRC, Félix Tshisekedi).

AP - Ludovic Marin

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

2 min

Nearly 12 billion euros should be mobilized over 5 years to finally materialize the pharaonic project of the Great Green Wall.

Traditional donors and several private actors have pledged to invest to restore 100 million hectares from Senegal to Djibouti.

A weapon to counter the disastrous advance of the desert and to create jobs.

This time, can we believe it? 

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Guests:

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Ibrahim Thiaw

, Executive Secretary of the

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

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Abakar Mahamat Zougoulou

, Scientific and Technical Director of the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall

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Rémi Hemerick

, Managing Director of SOS Sahel who manages the

platform of the actors of the Great Green Wall

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Karim Ait Talb

, deputy general manager of the Advens-Geocoton Group, co-founder of the

A M Africa

, a fund dedicated to the financing of agroecology in Africa.

- Report in Senegal on the "Tolou Keur" project to restore land in Senegal in the village of Belvédère 40 km from Dakar.

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