Brazil, Peru and China

December 17, 2010

Masood Lohar, the National Coordinator of the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) implemented by UNDP in Pakistan received the "Benazir Bhutto Human Rights Award" from the President of Pakistan Mr. Asif Zardari.

Mr. Lohar is portraited on the left while while presenting the Benazir Housing Project at the 2009 South-South Expo for which he won the 2009 South-South Expo Award).

PRESS RELEASE

GEF Approves $20 Million for Wastewater Management in the Caribbean

Part of a $271 Million Effort in Six Caribbean Countries

L-R: Marcia Levaggi, Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat; Alejandra Mujica, Uruguay National Agency of Research and Innovation; Hopeton Peterson, Planning Institute of Jamaica; Farrukh Iqbal Khan, Adaptation Fund Board; and Assize Toure, Centre du Suivi Ecologique.

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GEF-SGP Project Site Visit at COP 16

Onsite learning experience shares how the Mayan community adapts to climate-related risks

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St.Petersburg, Russia / Washington DC. - November 23, 2010

Today the Global Environment Facility (GEF) announced at the International Tiger Conservation Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, that it will provide up to $50 million in grants to save the tiger from its current path towards extinction in the wild.

Washington DC, November 12, 2010 - Senegal officials signed on Thursday a memorandum of understanding for the first project to be funded by the Adaptation Fund, established to assist developing countries adjust to the effects of climate change. Developing countries can access the resources from the fund directly, without the intermediation of multilateral development institutions, which is a unique feature evolved by the Adaptation Fund Board and an unprecedented one for an environmental financial mechanism.

A new film titled “Oceanic Guardians” (www.youtube.com/pacificislandfish) was launched on November 5, by the UNDP-GEF funded Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project (OFMP) at the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee meeting in Honiara, Solomon Islands.