Japan became the first bilateral partner to fund the new re-afforestation and land restoration programme through the Climate Promise FLaRAK project.
    
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The country’s major afforestation campaign could reach its true potential with thorough preparation and planning.
    
  The final event in a series of dialogues on environment took place ahead of the international conference in Stockholm.
    
  The new funding will be key in sustaining resilient forest ecosystems that benefit local economies, protect biodiversity, and address climate change.
    
  The impacts of the climate crisis are all around us. Yet despite the headlines, there is hope to be found in climate action.
    
  To tackle climate change, Ecuador has taken pioneering steps for reducing deforestation and forest degradation.
    
  UNDP and Defra aim to demonstrate the potential of nature to help tackle the climate crisis and reach the goals of the Paris Agreement.
    
  With new climate financing support from Japan, UNDP will assist Georgia to protect forests and reduce emissions.
    
  UNDP is committed to support the government in exploring new financing instruments, particularly thematic bonds that take into account ESG criteria.
    
  53 countries have included actions to promote women’s empowerment in their revised climate action plans, up from seven countries in 2015.
    
  Learn how 3 countries are tackling the water crisis and supporting their national climate pledges.
    
  Though women and girls bear the burden of climate impacts, they are often not driving change in climate adaption, mitigation, and solutions.
    
  9 countries working towards gender-responsive climate policies.
    
  Costa Rica is confronting the climate crisis with agroforestry.