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Indigenous Peoples

User Guide: Indigenous Peoples and GEF Project Financing

Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge and ecosystem management practices are recognized by the GEF as highly relevant for protection of the global environmental commons, environmental management, sustainable development, and increased resilience. The GEF sees Indigenous Peoples as distinct…
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Burning Bright: UNDP and GEF in the Tiger Landscape

This publication highlights the unique contribution of 10 GEF-financed, UNDP-supported projects in six tiger range countries (Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand), demonstrating how conservation activities in tiger habitat can accomplish more than the preservation of one…
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GEF Innovations in Blended Finance: A Summary

Transforming the world's energy systems, cities, and land-use systems to become low-carbon and resilient will require a large-scale change in global finance flows. The magnitude of financing is in the order of trillions of dollars per year, of which a large amount comes from the private sector. It…
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GEF Integrated Approach Pilot: Taking Deforestation out of Commodity Supply Chains

Today, soy, beef and palm oil yield about $92 billion a year to producers, many of whom are small-scale rural farmers. These commodities thus become important in many local and national economies. Therefore, sustainability within commodities will only be achieved by linking long-term national…
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