Equatorial Guinea

This decree approves the National Strategy for Sustainable Development. The strategy contains the final act of the Third National Economic Conference; the PNDES 2020; the Equatorial Guinea Agenda 2035; the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development 2020-2025; and the Supporting Programme to Economic Diversification (PRODECO).

The National REDD+ Investment Plan (PNI-REDD+) presents the EN-REDD+ implementation priorities for the next ten years (2020-2030). The PNI-REDD+ establishes orderly and sustainable economic growth as a principle, which safeguards the country's valuable natural capital, fosters participation and social inclusion, and improves the living conditions of the population. The PNI-REDD+ proposes to make the vision of REDD+ a reality through two impacts that combine environmental and socioeconomic benefits: • reduction of country emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land uses; • Improvement of the living conditions of the population thanks to economic diversification, with a sustainable approach and integrated management of the territory. Specifically, the PNI-REDD+ aspires to reduce the country's emissions linked to agriculture, forestry and other land uses by 40 million tCO2eq in the year 2040, including the implementation periods (2020-2030) and capitalization (2030- 2040). Achieving such an impact requires a total budget of US$185 million.

EN-REDD+ has as a long-term objective "to contribute to the global fight against climate change and to the country's sectoral development to achieve the well-being of the Equatorial Guinean people through REDD+, with an approach based on competitiveness, sustainability, integrated land management, food security, and social and gender equity”. EN-REDD+ will contributefor the country to achieve the climate objectives stipulated in its planned contributions determined at the national level (CPDN) and the development objectives established in the National Economic and Social Development Plan (PNDES) Horizon 2020 (RGE, 2007).The EN-REDD+ sets ambitious goals to meet its objectives: 1) reduce GHG emissions linked to agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU) by 20% by 2030, and in 50% by the year 2050; 2) maintain the forest area around 93% of the national territory; 3) reduce the rate of forest degradation to 0.45% per year; 4) strengthen the National System of Protected Areas (SNAP); 5) increase the area of productive forests with sustainable management plans up to 80% by the year 2030; 6) achieve sustainability and improve the efficiency of the forestry and agricultural sectors; and 7) mitigate and compensate the possible negative consequences for forests of future productive activities.REDD+ is part of the national structure of fight against climate change, which includes both adaptation to climate change and mitigation of its effects. The implementation of the REDD+ process will be guided by the principles of good governance: accountability, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, participation and transparency, as well as the application of a multisectoral and territorial development approach.Said implementation will be the responsibility of a REDD+ Steering Committee (CP-REDD+) and a REDD+ National Coordination (CN-REDD+), which will act as the entity responsible for governance and as the technical executive body, respectively.To achieve its objectives, the country plans to develop policies and measures for REDD+ structured in eight strategic axes. Four of them are sectoral axes, whose objective is to achieve sustainable productive development, which in turn makes it possible to mitigate the direct causes of deforestation and forest degradation, and four are cross-cutting axes, which will address the underlying causes.

The National Action Plan for the Development of Renewable Energies in Equatorial Guinea establishes the following general objectives: 1. Promote the study, research, use and comprehensive development of electricity generation with renewable sources in the country, through a model of sustainable energy development, which ensures a positive contribution from the environment, and with significant impacts on the economy and the backbone social of the territories. 2. Reduce dependence on electricity generation through fossil fuels, implementing generation projects with renewable sources, achieving climate change mitigation, and also contributing a differential value to energy security and the sustainability of the country's electrical system.

The National Action Program to Combat Deforestation and Land Degradation in Equatorial Guinea (PAN/LCD) aims to achieve the neutrality of land degradation at the national level and as one of the essential programs for the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals. It lays out a national process aligned with the Ten-Year Strategy of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought. This document updates the country's <a href="http://extwprlegs1.fao.org/docs/pdf/eqg146537.pdf">2000 forest policy </a>and the <a href="http://www.fao.org/faolex/results/details/en/c/LEX-FAOC146537/">2002 National Programme for Forest Action</a>.

The Programme seeks to tackle deforestation and biological variation, land degradation and the decrease of local biodiversity, while enhancing sustainable food production. Two objectives are set up: 1) promote best practices on current sectoral initiatives or strategies and their links to the conservation and restoration of ecosystems for the improvement of living conditions of the population with exclusive dependence on environmental resources / factors, and 2) establish mechanisms to strengthen national capacities on the persistent gaps and redefinition of the different actors / sectors, in order to achieve the neutrality of land degradation.

The Programme further seeks to maintain the carbon storage properties of the country's forests, and develop international financing schemes accordingly.

LA ESTRATEGIA DE DESARROLLO BAJA EN EMISIONES A LARGO PLAZO DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL (LT-LEDS)

Equatorial Guinea's Long-Term Low-Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) and the Strategy for a Just Transition and its Gender-Responsive Investment Plan (2025-2035), submitted as part of the Long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS).

Equatorial Guinea NDC 2022 Update, Nationally Determined Contribution from Equatorial Guinea in 2022

Equatorial Guinea. National communication (NC). NC1., National Communication from Equatorial Guinea in 2019

Equatorial Guinea First NDC, Nationally Determined Contribution from Equatorial Guinea in 2018

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