Introduction Africa is endowed with a substantial share of the world’s renewable and nonrenewable natural resources—arable land, water, oil, natural gas, minerals, forests, and wildlife. Africa is...
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GEF deploys additional high-impact climate adaptation funding
The Global Environment Facility’s member countries have approved $203 million in high-impact climate adaptation investment for Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States, and other...
GEF Council approves $916 million for urgent environmental action
The Global Environment Facility’s 186 member governments on Monday allocated $916 million for international action on biodiversity, climate change, nature renewal, and pollution control, and advanced...
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Lessons Learned from the Resilient Food Systems Program
Integrated Approach Pilot (IAP) programs were conceived as part of the Global Environment Facility 2020 Strategy to test the delivery of integrated approaches that address discrete, timebound,...
41 bailleurs de fonds et partenaires approuvent de nouveaux principes directeurs pour le financement de solutions climatiques et sanitaires visant à protéger la santé
Les principes directeurs répondent aux appels lancés par les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire en faveur de la mobilisation de financements qui sauvent et sauveront des vies, alors que la crise...
Enhancing access and increasing impact: the role of the multilateral climate funds
Joint declaration of the heads of the Adaptation Fund, the Climate Investment Funds, the Global Environment Facility and the Green Climate Fund The need for collective, urgent and ambitious action on...
41 funders, partners endorse new guiding principles for financing climate and health solutions to protect health
Guiding Principles respond to low- and middle-income countries’ calls to mobilize finance to save lives now and in the future as the climate crisis threatens global health A consortium of...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Guidance from the Conference of the Parties and Responses by the Global Environment Facility, COP1 – COP27
The GEF continually incorporates guidance from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties into its programs and operations, as described annually in its...
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17 African countries join workshop to enhance access to climate change adaptation funds
Representatives from 17 African countries gathered recently at a Global Environment Facility workshop to share lessons on how to deal with the climate crisis unfolding across the continent as well as...
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Pacific Least Developed Countries need to address climate and development challenges together
The climate crisis and development challenges pose a mutually reinforcing threat to the growth prospects of Pacific Island Least Developed Countries and need to be addressed together. This was a key...
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GEF workshop advances climate resilience steps for Asia
Even as Asia continues to be the region with the world’s fastest economic growth, climate change means it is also the world’s most disaster-prone, with its five Least Developed Countries bearing the...
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Según un nuevo informe del FIDA y el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial, las inversiones en los pequeños productores pobres generan beneficios considerables para el clima y el medio ambiente
Roma, 18 de agosto de 2023. Las inversiones conjuntas en la agricultura a pequeña escala en los países en desarrollo no solo aumentan la capacidad de la población vulnerable del medio rural para...
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The IFAD-GEF Advantage III: an integrated approach for food systems, climate and nature
Overview IFAD and GEF: more vitally important than ever Human-induced degradation now affects a third of agricultural land. Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, with around 1 million...
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LDCF and SCCF provide new targeted support for vulnerable states
The Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) will deploy $63 million in urgent funding for countries on the frontlines of climate change following a meeting of the...
Climate Change Adaptation: Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF)
Climate change poses a growing threat to all human and natural systems on our planet. International efforts are intensifying to prepare for rising seas, higher temperatures, worsening droughts,...
Combating Land Degradation
Land is a vital resource to humankind, like air and water. Land degradation - the progressive deterioration or loss of the productive capacity of soils for present and future - is linked to key...
The GEF and Climate Change: Catalyzing Transformation
Introduction Although the COVID-19 pandemic briefly slowed down travel and activity around the world, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that drive climate change are at their highest levels ever...
Statement from the GEF CEO and Chairperson on UNDP Audit Report
Yesterday our GEF agency partner the UNDP published an audit of its management of Global Environment Facility supported projects, produced by UNDP’s Independent Office of Audit Investigations. This...
Statement by GEF CEO and Chairperson Carlos Manuel Rodriguez regarding GEF-funded UNDP projects
This week, the Financial Times reported on allegations of misuse of funds in several GEF-funded projects implemented by our partner UNDP, citing a leaked internal UNDP audit of fiduciary issues which...
Repairing our broken food system
Mohamed Bakarr Lead Environmental Specialist The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the warning bells about our broken food system. As farmers and consumers grapple with disruptions in the global food...