Integrated programming in the Global Environment Facility: Learning from the GEF-6 IAP programs
September 1, 2021
Integrated programming was a key component of the GEF-6 replenishment cycle and a priority for implementation of the GEF 2020 strategy. The focus was on supporting recipient countries to tackle major drivers of environmental degradation in a...
How the GEF's blended finance is helping environmental innovators
August 19, 2021
The Global Environment Facility has opened its fifth call for proposals eligible for blended finance support, reflecting the continued growth of its targeted support for innovative and entrepreneurial projects that can yield global environmental...
#FreetownTheTreeTown campaign: Using digital tools to encourage tree cultivation in cities
August 5, 2021
Freetown, located at the seaward tip of a heavily forested, mountainous peninsula, is the capital of Sierra Leone, dominating its urban, economic, and social landscape. Each year, more than 100,000 people in search of employment move to the city,...
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...
