Frédéric Baron, author at EU REDD Facility

About Frédéric Baron

Frédéric coordinates the Facility's work on land-use planning, land-use finance and supply chain transparency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Latin America, supporting governments and stakeholders in their strategies to reduce deforestation.

Frédéric was previously based in Madagascar, as a REDD Chief Technical Advisor for the World Bank. He has also researched forest carbon markets at the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE) and worked as a project manager at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environment (LSCE). He has a background in tropical forestry.

Entries by Frédéric Baron

The lessons of COVID-19: facilitation for meeting sustainability goals

3 November 2021/by Frédéric Baron

When the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a pandemic, I was in Bogota on a work mission, living the last moments of what some could now consider a “normal” professional life. I returned home to Barcelona early and impassively observed how the world was dramatically changing, with a feeling of being useless in the crisis and disrupted in my personal work. Since then, the pandemic has harshly impacted all populations around the globe, in terms of health, of course, but also economically and socially.

Latest blog posts

WRI IndonesiaEnhancing land security: lessons from Côte d’Ivoire and Indonesia30 November 2022 - 11:46 am
In many parts of the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have no legal recognition of their rights over the forest land they live on. At the EU REDD Facility, we have gathered experience in Côte d’Ivoire and Indonesia to find innovative solutions to enhance local communities’ and smallholders’ legal security over their lands.
NitidaeSecuring land rights: one stone, three birds30 November 2022 - 10:58 am
Land tenure insecurity is a key driver of deforestation and land degradation. In contrast, tenure security comes with significant climate, biodiversity and development benefits: three birds with one stone. However, when looking at the national climate plans of major forest countries, more could be done to foster the securing of land rights.
Satrio Wicaksono, EFITraining land-use planners for sustainable landscapes13 July 2022 - 5:59 pm
Landscapes around the world have experienced dramatic transformations in recent decades. Global supply chains link smallholder palm oil farmers in Indonesia with major retailers, like Lidl, Carrefour and Tesco, in Europe or cocoa growers in Ghana to chocolatiers in Belgium. The growing population of our globalised world has intensified pressure on land, soils, water and forests. Ensuring the health of these ecosystems is essential to address climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation to achieve sustainable development.
Reducing the bitterness of coffee from Vietnam’s Central Highlands20 June 2022 - 3:00 pm
I love coffee in the morning, its taste, its aroma and the boost of energy it gives me to start the day. While enjoying a fresh brew some years ago, I began to think about what was behind my morning cup – where do the beans come from? What are the landscapes where they are produced like? And who are the people that harvest this coffee?
Six ingredients of successful partnerships for legal and sustainable forest-risk commodities20 June 2022 - 1:46 pm
How can we ensure legal and sustainable value chains that unleash local wellbeing and protect forest and biodiversity without excluding smallholders? The answer may be in the mixing of six ingredients to whip up successful multistakeholder partnerships that can support legal and sustainable supply chains of forest-risk commodities.
Season’s greetings and 2021 in review31 December 2021 - 4:34 pm
As 2021 draws to a close, I’d like to take this opportunity to share some highlights from this year’s work by the EU REDD Facility. This year we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our founding, taking the opportunity to reflect on the lessons we learned over the last decade. We’re working to ensure these insights help to shape and accelerate action for protecting and restoring the world’s forests.

About the EU REDD Facility

The EU REDD Facility supports countries in improving land-use governance as part of their efforts to slow, halt and reverse deforestation. It also supports the overall EU effort to reduce its contribution to deforestation in developing countries. The Facility focuses on countries that are engaged in REDD+, an international mechanism that incentivises developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their forest and land-use sectors. The Facility is hosted by the European Forest Institute and was established in 2010.

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