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Congested traffic and air pollution from transportation are major and increasing problems in Skopje. The transport has significant impact on climate change by emitting greenhouse gasses and CO2.

All recipient countries can access GEF resources, up to $30,000, to undertake, on a voluntary basis, GEF National Portfolio Formulation Exercises. These will serve as a priority setting tool for countries and as a guide for GEF Agencies as they assist recipient countries. Undertaking a NPFE is not a requirement or pre-requisite for requesting GEF grants.

U.S. Treasury Under Secretary Brainard Visits GEF Project in Haiti

The health sector is a major source of dioxins and mercury in the global environment primarily as a result of medical waste incineration and the breakage and improper disposal of mercury-containing devices such as thermometers and sphygmomanometers. This project in Argentina, India, Latvia, Lebanon, Philippines, Senegal and Vietnam is developing and sustaining best healthcare waste management practices in a way that is both locally appropriate and globally replicable.

Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, Belize C.A.

May 11, 2010

Introduction to COMPACT 

Village Banya, Municipality Nessebar, Bulgaria

July 14, 2010

There are two tortoise species in Bulgaria that have been critically reduced and are currently listed in the IUCN red list. This are the Testudo graeca, rated as vulnerable, and the Testudo hermanni rated as nearly threatened (IUCN - 2004).

Tunisia, June 29, 2010

Last June 14, the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Tunisia, Mr. Nadhir Hamada, presented the 2010 Presidential Award for Environmental Protection and Nature.