Environment Minister Miguel Ceara Hatton, German Ambassador Maike Friedrichsen and Head of Cooperation – EU Delegation to the Dominican Republic Maria Gonzalez Mata pondered the importance of the Green Development Fund project that bolsters ecosystems in the southern region of the country. They presented the outcome and highlighted the importance of the project that favors ecosystems in the southern region of the country.
The Ministry of Environment, together with the European Union and the German Federal Government, presented the achievements and impacts of the technical and financial assistance provided through the Green Development Fund (FDV)/REDD+Landscape in the Dominican Republic on 11 May 2023.
The Ministry of Environment highlights that the Dominican Republic achieved, through the FDV/REDD+Landscape, an investment of more than one million euros in ecosystem restoration actions in the Los Baos micro-watershed, in Vallejuelo, in the Jura river basin, in Azua, and in the territories of Hondo Valle, Independencia and Bahoruco.
The investment had an impact on the restoration and protection of more than 6,500 hectares of forests, adding to the goals that the country has with the Bonn Challenge and the AFOLU 2040 initiative, within the framework of the United Nations Decade for Ecosystem Restoration.
During the presentation, Minister of Environment Miguel Ceara Hatton stressed the timeliness of the joint effort. “Never in history has the world faced the urgent need to restore damaged ecosystems and rebuild links with nature,” he said. He said the DR is experiencing the impact of drought, forest fires and actions such as these are key to turn sustainability into culture.
German Ambassador Friedrichsen stressed the importance of the Green Development Fund in the Dominican Republic. She applauded that “the country, with the support of international cooperation, has increased its efforts to curb deforestation, the loss of the wonderful biodiversity that you have and to restore forests and other essential systems, trying to counteract the effects of climate change and safeguard the sustainability and livelihoods of the population.”
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Ministry of Environment
15 May 2023