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GEF Blog
Welcome to the GEF Blog
Reviewing, providing input and approving proposals by environmental finance and grant-making institutions require access to current, broad-based information deriving from a variety of sources.
Environmental issues are complex and their solutions laden by trade-offs. There are few, if any "correct" answers.
This blog hopes to call attention and stimulate discussion on emerging results, analyses and commentaries coming up in the most prestigious and widely read scientific journals, particularly those relevant to GEF's mandate, but also to policy making in general. Allocating scarce resources to competing project concepts is hardly exact science, but sound scientific guidance can definitely help.
We invite you to participate!
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SWIOFP Acoustic and Pelagic Trawl Survey around Mauritius and the Mascareigne Plateau December 16, 2010 - 1:27pm The 7th of December, saw the Research Vessel “Dr. Fridtjof Nansen” leaving Port Louis to begin South West Indian Ocean Fishery Project (SWIOFP) Component 3, Pelagics- “Acoustic and Small Pelagic Trawl Survey”, the last at sea survey that will reunite the Nansen Programme and the SWIOFP. The survey aims to complete a first multidisciplinary survey, conducted in this area in November 2008... Text by Xavier Vincent, Sr. Fisheries Specialist, The World Bank. |
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GEF provides seed money for new biodiversity "knowledgebase" November 15, 2010 - 10:37am GEF is a founding sponsor of a new biodiversity knowledgebase on UN and intergovernmental acitivities offered by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. |
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Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity October 15, 2010 - 3:50pm Freshwater resources of the planet are more and more stressed by human activities, and human- induced climate change will further worsen water security at all levels. The article “Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity" by C. J. Vörösmarty, et al. , recently published in Nature, brings for the first time a global analysis of water security both from human and biodiversity perspectives simultaneously utilising a spatial accounting framework... |
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Drilling for water in Kiribati September 29, 2010 - 10:21am The residents of Betio and many of Kiribati’s residents often rely on well water to meet their needs. Fresh water is in short supply in Tarawa. |
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GEF 20th Anniversary September 27, 2010 - 12:38pm Give us your ideas on how to celebrate GEF's 20th anniversary..watch this space for further updates! |
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Improving Aid Effectiveness and Implementing GEF-5 Reforms September 23, 2010 - 1:33pm [...] Interestingly, both President Obama’s remarks and those of the GEF trustee converge around many of the reforms approved in the context of the recent replenishment, which in turn will orient GEF’s investments over the next 4 years... |
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Can conservation cut poverty? September 22, 2010 - 5:26pm A commentary in Nature last week redirects the spotlight to a central question for the environment and development agendas: can efforts to conserve biodiversity also benefit the poor? |