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Accroché (1-1) par le Nigéria au stade Félix Houphouët Boigny d'Abidjan dans la soirée de ce jeudi 14 novembre, le Bénin jouera lundi prochain sa qualification pour la Coupe d'Afrique des Nations Maroc 2025. En conférence de presse après le nul, Gernot Rohr a déjà annoncé les couleurs de ce match décisif à Tripoli qui va opposer le Bénin à la Libye dans le cadre de la 6e journée des éliminatoires.

Voici en vidéo, quelques mots du sélectionneur en conférence de presse d'après-match :

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Dans ses priorités pour le Budget 2025, le gouvernement béninois a mis un accent fort sur le secteur agricole. Les grandes lignes ont été présentées aux députés, mercredi 13 novembre 2024.

Les priorités du gouvernement béninois dans le secteur agricole répondent aux défis actuels de productivité, d'organisation des filières et de développement rural. Il est prévu au titre du Budget 2025, le développement des filières agricoles parmi lesquelles figurent l'anacarde, l'ananas, le soja, le riz, le maïs, ainsi que des produits d'élevage comme le lait, la viande et les œufs. Ces filières ont été identifiées pour leur potentiel économique.
Le plan budgétaire 2025 prévoit également des investissements importants pour améliorer les infrastructures marchandes et les services logistiques. Il est attendu une meilleure organisation de la filière agricole pour améliorer la qualité et la productivité des produits agricoles.
La promotion de l'élevage sédentaire des ruminants sera aussi encouragée.

Le Fonds National de Développement Agricole (FNDA) est appelé à jouer un rôle clé dans le soutien financier des agriculteurs. L'État entend renforcer l'accès aux financements adaptés via le FNDA. L'objectif est de donner aux acteurs du secteur agricole les moyens d'accroître leurs capacités de production et d'atteindre une plus grande rentabilité. Ces priorités dans le secteur agricole illustrent la volonté du Bénin de garantir une sécurité alimentaire durable.

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Lors de la COP29, le Bénin a marqué un tournant dans sa stratégie climatique en lançant une plateforme nationale de financement dédiée aux enjeux climatiques.

Le dispositif vise à mobiliser des fonds publics et privés pour financer des projets d'adaptation et d'atténuation, tout en contribuant aux Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODD) et aux Contributions Déterminées au niveau National (CDN).

La plateforme repose sur quatre axes stratégiques : la Monétisation du carbone (1) pour vendre 2,5 millions de crédits carbone issus de projets dans l'agriculture et l'énergie. Les recettes permettront de renforcer la sécurité alimentaire et de lutter contre la désertification.
Le Bénin prévoit un soutien budgétaire coordonné (2). En partenariat avec des institutions telles que le FMI et la Banque mondiale, un cadre triennal est mis en place pour garantir des ressources stables, favorisant la mise en œuvre des politiques climatiques.
Pour l'attraction des investissements privés (3), une garantie de 200 millions d'euros de l'AMGI sera mise en place Bénin. A cela s'ajoute une mobilisation de près de 500 millions d'euros pour financer des projets écologiques.
L' axe 4 prévoit un Guichet unique pour le financement local. Ce guichet simplifiera l'accès des PME aux financements verts, en coopération avec des institutions régionales et internationales.

Un soutien international

Le Bénin bénéficie d'un appui financier et technique inédit pour soutenir sa transition climatique. Il s'agit de 1,4 milliard de dollars de l'Association Internationale de Développement (IDA) de la Banque mondiale ; de 200 millions de dollars de la Facilité de Résilience et de Durabilité (FRD) du FMI et de 195 millions d'euros de la Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD).

Le ministre d'État à l'Économie et aux Finances, Romuald Wadagni, a déclaré : « Avec le fort soutien de nos partenaires, le Bénin concrétise ses ambitions climatiques en actions tangibles. En s'appuyant sur notre expérience des marchés de capitaux, nous cherchons à catalyser les investissements privés pour intensifier l'action climatique. Notre démarche s'inscrit dans une vision de résultats concrets, à la fois en matière d'adaptation et d'atténuation, pour un avenir durable et résilient. »

Un modèle pour l'Afrique et au-delà

Face à un déficit de financement climatique de 10 milliards de dollars d'ici 2030, cette plateforme représente un pas important pour combler cet écart et renforcer la résilience climatique du Bénin. En plus de répondre à ses propres besoins, le Bénin espère inspirer d'autres nations africaines en quête de solutions de financement innovantes pour le climat.

Selon des allégations rapportées par le quotidien Libero et reprises par Fratelli d’Italia — le parti de la Première ministre Giorgia Meloni — sur ses canaux officiels, l’organisation humanitaire SOS Méditerranée aurait saboté le programme d’externalisation des migrations entre l’Albanie et l’Italie.

Yoko Ono erhält eine jahrelang verschwundene Uhr von ihrem verstorbenen Ehemann John Lennon zurück. Dafür musste sie jedoch vor Gericht.

Axel Lehmann gibt der Manager-Gilde auf Linkedin Ratschläge, wie man Firmen in der Krise führt. Wie sich das anfühlt, weiss er nur zu gut, ging die Credit Suisse doch während seiner Präsidentschaft in der UBS auf. Die Tipps kommen denn auch nicht gut an.

Die Duelle zwischen der Schweiz und Serbien haben in der Vergangenheit oft hohe Wellen geschlagen. Trotzdem stuft die Polizei das Duell in Zürich nicht als Hochrisikospiel ein, auch wenn viele serbische Fans erwartet werden. Von diesen wünscht sich Murat Yakin Respekt.

L’Agence nationale pour l’amélioration et le développement du logement (AADL) a démenti, ce jeudi soir, les informations erronées circulant sur les réseaux sociaux concernant les […]

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Euronews: Donald Trump Robert F. Kennedy Jr-t jelölte egészségügyi és humánügyi miniszternek. A megválasztott elnök közleményében azt írja, hogy az oltásszkeptikus Kennedy segíteni fog megvédeni az amerikaiakat „a káros vegyi anyagoktól, szennyeződésektől, peszticidektől, gyógyszerektől és élelmiszer-adalékanyagoktól”.

The announcement came shortly after the Jutarnji List daily paper reported that Beros had been taken into custody by officials from the country's anti-corruption and organised crime bureau.

Derzeit können keinen Aktien von Meyer Burger mehr gekauft oder verkauft werden. Das Unternehmen hat dies selbst veranlasst. Das ist ein ungewöhnlicher Schritt. Offenbar ist der grösste Kunde abgesprungen. Gehen bei Meyer Burger jetzt die Lichter aus?

Le nouvel horaire, qui entrera en vigueur le 15 décembre, offrira 15% de trains en plus en Suisse romande.

Das Energieunternehmen OMV hat im Rahmen eines Schiedsverfahren 230 Millionen Euro zugesprochen bekommen, nachdem Gazprom 2022 die Lieferungen eingestellt hatte. Diese Summe soll mit den Rechnungszahlungen an den staatlichen russischen Gaskonzern verrechnet werden.

Wir dämmern gemütlich vor uns hin und sind schon fast im Land der Träume – bis wir im Halbschlaf merken, dass wir doch noch mal aufs WC müssen. Der Weg ins Bad wird unvermeidbar, an Einschlafen ist nicht mehr zu denken. Aber warum muss man immer genau dann?

COP29 will need to build on COP16’s successes and mitigate its failures. Credit: COP16

By Yamide Dagnet, Amanda Maxwell, Zak Smith, and Jennifer Skene
BAKU, Nov 15 2024 (IPS)

The United States just went through its most consequential election. While the outcome raises questions about what the re-election of Trump means for U.S. engagement in global climate talks moving forward (in view of his previous stunt), the game is still on, with or without him. Despite the challenges, local communities, cities, states, private actors, and the public more broadly have embarked on an unstoppable journey—upholding the spirit of the Paris Agreement.

The world’s biodiversity agreement just faced its first big test in Cali, Colombia, at the United Nations’ 16th Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP16). The results were decidedly mixed, with some breakthroughs but also critical missed opportunities. Ultimately, it left the international community with a suite of urgent priorities to address our rapidly closing window to halt biodiversity collapse and to align the protection of nature with action on climate change.

With countries rapidly pivoting to the UN climate conference (COP29) this week, they will need to build on COP16’s successes and mitigate its failures, prioritizing the equitable delivery of main “AAA” objectives that are relevant to both: accountability, the alignment of biodiversity and climate plans, and the adequacy of resource mobilization and access to finance.

COP16 in Cali was the first Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP since the December 2022 adoption of the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF or, commonly, GBF). The GBF set forth a plan to reverse and halt biodiversity loss by 2030 through the achievement of 23 action-oriented targets and to live in harmony with nature by 2050 by meeting four overarching goals.

COP16 offered a chance to make progress on the AAA objectives, as they are essential to delivering on the GBF, while also ensuring equity is built into each of them. These objectives manifest in some of COP16’s most notable outcomes, including the adoption of a work program and the creation of a permanent subsidiary body on Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) under the CBD, with a recognition of the role of Afro-descendants. The outcomes also included decisions on a historic and long-overdue fund to foster equitable benefits sharing from their knowledge.

Overall, however, the international community left Cali with a long road ahead for meaningful, enduring, and equitable implementation.

Accountability
A long history of failed promises on biodiversity cast a broad shadow as the international community began negotiations at COP16. None of the biodiversity conservation targets set for 2010–2020 were fully met, making the challenge of halting and reversing biodiversity loss in the following decades much harder. While parties to the CBD have had two years since adopting the GBF to revise their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), which are supposed to detail how they will fulfill their GBF obligations, only about 22 percent of countries had done so by the conclusion of the COP.

Developed countries have been particularly notorious for sidestepping accountability, especially on forest commitments. For decades, international policy has largely focused on addressing deforestation in the tropics while allowing the wealthier countries of the Global North to evade scrutiny for their own forest degradation. As countries chart their ambition under the GBF and related commitments at the intersection of nature and climate, voices from the Global South, including the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, have begun calling for frameworks to drive more equitable accountability.

The GBF’s monitoring framework presented an opportunity to begin correcting this imbalance through the adoption of concrete, shared indicators to guide biodiversity protection and restoration. Instead, in the months leading up to COP16, negotiators began building a monitoring framework that risks cloaking business as usual under the guise of progress. Ultimately, without additional revisions and willingness to strengthen the indicators, the monitoring framework will be subject to the same inequities and weaknesses that have plagued policies for decades.

As countries look to build accountability, the enhanced transparency framework and global stocktake under the UN climate convention can provide models for how to bring more teeth into the CBD process and foster responsibility for all parties. In addition, wealthy countries need to ensure their NBSAPs are action-oriented and to hold themselves to the same standards on deforestation and forest degradation that they expect in the tropics.

There may also be opportunities to channel success elsewhere into greater accountability on biodiversity conservation. One example is the progressing ratification of the new high seas treaty, which is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for biodiversity conservation at a global scale. The treaty must be ratified by 60 nations to come into force and then be effectively implemented, both of which saw progress at COP16 with the announcement of Panama’s ratification during the COP and several countries confirming the signing of the treaty and announcing intentions to start working on the first round of high seas marine protected areas.

Alignment of biodiversity and climate efforts
Biodiversity loss and climate change are inextricably linked, requiring aligned, synergistic action. The UN biodiversity and climate conventions have historically been siloed, resulting in disconnected, sometimes conflicting decision-making and ambition. Last December, at the UN climate conference in Dubai (COP28), countries agreed to the first global stocktake, which emphasized the need to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation by 2030 and to align with the GBF.

COP16 created an opening for fostering that alignment and ensuring coordination and complementarity. Parties agreed to establish a process, with submissions of views from all stakeholders by May 2025, for coordinating between the three Rio Conventions (addressing climate, biodiversity, and desertification). This creates a pathway for ensuring that climate mitigation and adaptation and biodiversity protection and restoration mutually reinforce each other’s priorities.

At COP29, negotiators should build off of this leadership, elevating the need to integrate climate and biodiversity commitments and reinforcing the importance of an efficient, robust collaboration process. Particularly given next year’s ocean and climate summits in France and Brazil, respectively, which will thrust oceans and forests to the forefront of the climate agenda, it is imperative that countries set the stage for the alignment between biodiversity and climate commitments, create opportunities for the exchange of lessons and best practices between the conventions, and deliver more robust and ambitious climate and biodiversity plans as soon as possible, and no later than in a year’s time in 2025.

Adequacy of finance
As at COP15, the issue causing the greatest rift at COP16 was the question of how to fund the biodiversity conservation called for in the GBF. Since the signing of the GBF, positions—particularly divisions between developed and developing countries—have only hardened. The European Union announced in September that it was opposed to a key demand of developing countries: the creation of a new finance mechanism to distribute biodiversity finance. At the same time, the Ministerial Alliance for Ambition on Nature Finance released a statement from 20 Global South countries calling on the Global North to meet the commitments it made in the GBF to ensure that at least $20 billion per year is delivered from developed to developing countries by 2025 and that at least $30 billion per year is delivered by 2030.

Unfortunately, discussions on these issues started too late in the negotiations and dragged into the last day of the COP, until the meeting ended abruptly for lack of a quorum. The aborted talks adjourned with no agreed-upon strategy for increasing funds to finance nature conservation. Countries will now continue talks next year at an interim meeting.

This result is unacceptable. The vast majority of countries in the Global South will not have the resources necessary to meet their obligations in the GBF if the Global North does not meet its funding commitments.

The problem is compounded given that some of the key sticking points of biodiversity finance echo discussions about climate finance. For example, under the UN climate convention, there have been similar disagreements around appropriate finance mechanisms, such as around the creation of the Loss and Damage Fund in 2022. During those and other discussions, diverging opinions around sources of finance, transparency, and access to funding have stymied progress. Now, with the inconclusive end of COP16 on these issues, there is even larger, more entrenched distrust between developed and developing countries.

At COP29, countries need to agree to a new, ambitious climate finance goal to build the needed confidence among governments and the private sector to pursue more ambitious climate action that also drives the protection of nature; the richest and most-polluting countries must therefore dramatically enhance their efforts.

This is not charity—it is investment for economic and social justice, a matter of national, food, and energy security, and it is essential to building a climate-safer world for all.

Ultimately, all countries will get hurt by climate impacts with billions’ worth of damages. The richest countries are not immune to this (as we saw most recently in the United States and Spain), and they all need to step up. A deal on finance cannot just hinge on the United States. That was true before, and it’s truer now.

Looking forward
For both climate and nature, 2030 is a deadline that will dictate our future. By then, the international community will need to have implemented transformative change across all sectors, establishing climate-safe, nature-positive economies while ensuring equity and human rights.

Government progress, including at the subnational level, on accountability, alignment, and adequacy of finance is particularly critical given the unprecedented attention from the private sector on biodiversity and climate risks and outcomes. Companies and investors had a major presence at COP16—they are paying close attention to these negotiations and to the growing risks of failing to take action. Signals from the government are critical to pushing money flows and supply chains toward sustainable, equitable outcomes and building the structures that will transform business practices.

COP16 made important strides but ultimately left far too much on the table. At COP29 and beyond, parties need to renew trust and pursue their resolve to rapidly scale up and invest in holistic, equitable, all-of-planet approaches that propel action at every level of society and government, finally turning global commitments into reality on the ground. COP29 needs to and can deliver.

Note: Yamide Dagnet, Senior Vice President of NRDC International, Amanda Maxwell, Managing Director of NRDC Global, Zak Smith, Senior Attorney of NRDC International, and Jennifer Skene, Director of NRDC Global Northern Forests Policy, International, wrote this article. It was republished with the permission of NRDC International.

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