Why the GEF is investing in transforming food systems
July 20, 2021
You may be aware that food plays an important role in human health. Did you know it is also critical to the health of our planet?
Food systems are major drivers of global forest and biodiversity loss, land and soil degradation, water pollution, and...
Climate finance and the urgency for adaptation in the developing world
May 12, 2021
There is growing momentum in the international community to ramp up climate finance for mitigation and adaptation actions. Undoubtedly, a focus on climate change adaptation in the developing world must be a priority for the financing. At the...
A surfer's view on a blue and green recovery
April 1, 2021
In a blog for IUCN's World Conservation Congress, GEF CEO and Chairperson Carlos Manuel Rodriguez writes how surfing has given him a deeper understanding of oceans and marine life, and a passion for addressing biodiversity loss and climate change.
Second phase of planetGOLD doubles countries addressing mercury in ASGM
March 31, 2021
As an implementing agency for the GEF-funded planetGOLD program, Conservation International has been proud to help deliver this innovative global initiative that supports countries in addressing mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (...
How rescheduling debt for climate and nature goals could unlock a sustainable recovery
March 25, 2021
“As the world continues to struggle with COVID-19, it is faced with urgent, intertwined crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, pollution, and international debt.”
The Global Environment Facility’s CEO, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez,...
Protecting and valuing water across borders yields many benefits
March 22, 2021
This year’s World Water Day is focused on valuing water and illustrating how water means different things to different people. Indeed, there is a constant running through the Global Environment Facility’s three decades of work in geographies around...
Managing chemicals for a cleaner, healthier planet
February 26, 2021
Since it was signed 20 years ago, the Stockholm Convention has helped countries throughout the world to carefully manage the use, storage, distribution, and disposal of a particularly dangerous group of hazardous chemicals, the persistent organic...
To build back better, we need to rethink global subsidies
January 25, 2021
In an article for the Davos Agenda 2021, GEF CEO and Chairperson Carlos Manuel Rodriguez says a renewed focus on easing pressures on nature through a green and blue recovery has breathed new life into upcoming negotiations on biodiversity loss, land...
Building corridors of growth through the Sahel and beyond
January 19, 2021
Temperatures in the Sahel are increasing 1.5 times faster than the global average, and around 80 percent of the farmland has lost some degree of its natural productivity. Together, these factors diminish the availability of land for food production...
Connected technology is accelerating the green revolution
December 21, 2020
Alignment between policy, finance, and technology is spurring a rapid shift to a new kind of economic development
We can resolve the major impact that our energy and transport systems make on the climate. A really big shift is on its way as the...
