| GEF to Launch Tropical Forest Account for the World's Last Tropical Forest |
Bali, December 8, 2007 –The world’s largest environmental funding body, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), said it plans to launch the Tropical Forest Account Initiative which will help safeguard forest ecosystems while strengthening sustainable financing for protected areas and for sustainable forest management. |
| World Environment Body Looks to Finance Adaptation Now and for Future |
Bali, November 30, 2007 - The world’s largest environmental funding body, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), stands ready to build on its past experience working with the most vulnerable countries that seek market-driven sustainable ways to adjust to climate change today. |
| India Leveraging GEF Land Development Plan |
Washingtom DC, November 16, 2007 - A groundbreaking environmentally-friendly land development program will soon allow thousand of farmers to adapt their farming practices to adjust to the impacts of climate change on agriculture. |
| Development Marketplace 2007 |
The Global Environment Facility in coordination with the World Bank Group and its partners last month announced the Lighting Africa Development Marketplace Grant Competition. Entitled "Innovations in Off-Grid Lighting Products and Services for Africa," the competition seeks innovative Project ideas that address the various off-grid lighting needs of Sub-Saharan Africa, including alternative distribution models, new clean lighting technology, stronger production chains, and improvement of the policy environment. |
| Convention's Working Group Fostering Mainstreaming of Biodiversity Concerns(2) |
Paris, 13 July, 2007--Over 500 delegates representing 190 Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) met at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from July 9–13, 2007 to look at ways to enhance tools for implementing the Convention and to integrate biodiversity concerns across all economic sectors through national biodiversity strategies and action plans. |
| Developing Countries Win Environmental Ally: |
Washington, DC, 15, June 2007 –Developing countries won a new partner in their fight to stem environmental degradation today as the Global Environment Facility (GEF) governing Council gave a $50 million green light to a new pilot Public Private Partnership (PPP). |
| Funding Boost for Fight against Land Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa: |
Washington, DC, 15 June 2007 – Over 28 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa will launch activities to fight land degradation, thanks to an innovative $150 million program approved by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council in Washington today. |
| Going to Market:New GEF Project Takes Aim at Barriers Impeding Energy Efficiency in Brazil |
Washington, DC, 15 June 2007 – A new, $13.5 million project approved today by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council will help Brazil to consolidate hard-won gains in energy efficiency, and eliminate technical, financial, and policy-related barriers that are impeding the use of energy-efficient (EE) technologies in buildings. |
| Costa Rica gets $4.8 million infusion to upgrade its world-class national parks system |
Washington, DC, 15 June 2007 – The GEF Council today approved a landmark grant of $4.8 million to strengthen Costa Rica’s famed but threatened national parks system. The system, for many years a world-class standard of environmental excellence, is threatened by deforestation, illegal harvesting of resources, and management inefficiencies. |
| Adapting to Climate Change: New GEF Projects Show New Ways to Beat the Heat(2) |
Washington, DC, 15 June 2007 – The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council today approved a grant of $9.9 million to finance two climate adaptation projects designed to help communities in Ecuador and Peru combat problems associated with glacial retreat in the tropical Andes and improve water management in Ecuador. |
| Boost in Environmental Funding for Pacific Ocean Island States: New Strategy Takes National and Regional Approach |
Washington, DC, 9 May 2007 – A new environment strategy, backed by a proposed $100 million grant package from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was agreed to by Heads of State and top government leaders representing 15 small island developing states (SIDS) and territories of the Pacific Ocean region today. The funding, representing a six-fold increase over previous GEF financing for the region, will be used to fight climate change, protect island species and shared waters, and conserve the fragile environment of the islands. |
| Tackling Climate Change Now |
WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2007. The just-concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland may well have succeeded in casting the spotlight on climate change, but practical solutions are already being developed. Monique Barbut, GEF CEO saw a pioneering project during a recent visit to Koratgere village, a two-hour drive from teeming Bangalore city, deep in the heart of Karnataka state dubbed India’s Silicon valley. |
| CEO Spells Out New Vision for GEF in Five Point Sustainability Compact |
WASHINGTON, DC, December 5, 2006. In a major policy speech to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council meeting today, Monique Barbut, GEF CEO and Chairperson, outlined an exciting new vision for GEF, the world’s largest financier of global environmental protection projects. “I want to break apart the complex web of bureaucracy which today defines the GEF and put in place a five-point Sustainability Compact so that the GEF can be counted on as a leading force for sustainable development for all people,” she said. |
| Turning Up the Heat: A Call for More Concerted Global Action on Climate Change |
Washington, DC, 13 April, 2007 - One of the hottest items on the world’s virtual newsstands since April 6 has been the newest report launched by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report estimates with greater than 90% confidence that climate change over recent years is human-induced. This and other such reports are heating up the public discourse on climate change impacts around the world. Are we, as a global society, finally waking up to these urgent threats for dire changes to the planet? And what should we do about it?
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| Winning the Water Wars? New Models for Post-Conflict Cooperation on Water(2) |
WASHINGTON, DC, March 22, 2007 (Winning the Water Wars? New Models for Post-Conflict Cooperation on Water) - On World Water Day 2007, we stand face-to-face with the frightening specter of increasingly scarce and poor-quality water around the globe. In the public glare of this urgent problem, there are success stories which identify real solutions. They deserve to be aired and understood. |