Ministerial Roundtable on Financing the Environment and Sustainable Development
Representatives from China, India, Jordan, Latvia, Mauritius, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Senegal, South Africa, and Vietnam participated in the workshop. These countries were selected on the basis of information generated through the preparation of the Survey of GEF Political and Operational Focal Points, undertaken by Chemonics International in October 1998, and the Study of GEF’s Overall Performance published prior to the first GEF Assembly in March 1998.
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GEF Dynamic Partnerships, Real Solutions (Introduction to the GEF)
The GEF is the single largest source of funding for the global environmnent. Over the last decade, it has committed over $4.2 billion in grants, and leveraged $11 billion in additional funding for more than 1000 in 160 countries
The Challenge of Sustainability
"It focuses on the key issues of energy, forests, biodiversity, land and water degradation and financing. And it proposes practical solutions that build on the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the experiences since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992."
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GEF Annual Report 2001
GEF's mission is to strengthen the link between sustainable economic cooperation and protection of the global environment, and between environmental security and a stable social order.
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IUCN & GEF: Partners in Conservation (2000)
For more than 50 years, IUCN has helped lead the way for a sustainable world. It is, in truth, a
“world conservation union” encompassing 75 States, 111 government agencies, 732 non-governmental organizations, 36 affiliates, and 12,000 scientists and experts.
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Solar Thermal Energy Comes to Rajasthan
This is a story about three partners and a promising new technology
GEF Contributions to Agenda 21: The First Decade
Humanity at a turning point