Close-up illustration of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
The global spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) is a source of great concern to all of us. The Global Environment Facility is working with our partners and stakeholders to ensure the continuity of urgent environmental projects and programs in developing countries.
GEF Operational Updates
- White Paper on a GEF COVID-19 Response Strategy - November 17, 2020
- Confirmation of extension to cancellation deadline under GEF Policy on Project Cancellation - July 1, 2020
- Further extension of deadlines under GEF Policy on Project Cancellation - June 2, 2020
- GEF's Response to COVID-19 - Council Meeting Document for 58th GEF Council
- Extension of deadlines under GEF Policy on Project Cancellation - April 23, 2020
- Extension of deadlines under GEF Policy on Project Cancellation - March 23, 2020
- COVID-19 – statement from the GEF CEO and chairperson Naoko Ishii
GEF Stories
- Supporting developing countries on the road to a climate-resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic - Joint statement by the AF, CIF, GCF, GEF, LDCF, SCCF
- GEF's response to COVID-19
- COVID-19 Response and Recovery: Nature-Based Solutions for People, Planet and Prosperity - WRI joint publication for policymakers
- Welcome to the Anthropocene - World Bank Voices blog by GEF CEO and Chairperson Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
- Repairing Humanity’s Relationship With the Planet Will Be Cheaper Than Continuing to Let It Slide - Foreign Policy Op-ed by GEF CEO and Chairperson Carlos Manuel Rodriguez and WWF-US President and CEO Carter Roberts
- Investing in nature makes more sense than ever - GEF-Telegraph Partnership Op-ed by Naoko Ishii and Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
- GEF CEO: 'We need to protect our one common home'
- 'We need to work together and follow the science' - Interview with GEF Director of Programs Gustavo Fonseca
- Commitment and continuity in a pandemic period - Interview with GEF Director of Strategy and Operations Francoise Clottes
In line with public health advice and travel restrictions, relevant GEF events have been cancelled, postponed, or are conducted virtually.
Agencies and conventions across the GEF partnership are working to combat and mitigate the coronavirus crisis (updated on a regular basis).
GEF Independent Evaluation Office
- COVID-19 Response Page
- The GEF response to the Crisis - What can we learn from Evaluation?
- COVID-19 - Statement from IEO Director
Agencies
- COVID-19 Response Page
- ADB’s COVID-19 Response for Developing Asia Surpasses $20 Billion
- COVID-19 Threatens Asia and Pacific’s Progress on SDGs, ADB Data Show
- ADB Data Show the Impact of COVID-19 on Government Finance in Developing Asia
- $16.4 Billion in Cofinancing in 2020 Expanded ADB's COVID-19 Response
- ADB Proposes SDG Accelerator Bonds for Green Infrastructure Projects in Southeast Asia
- Promoting a Learning Society Key to Equitable Education Amid COVID-19 — ADB Book
- ADB's Private Sector Operations Deliver Crucial Support for Region’s COVID-19 Response in 2020
- ADB Approves $18.9 Million for Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines in the Pacific
- ADB Delivers Strong Results in Responding to COVID-19
- Green Jobs for a Resilient Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery
- Supply Chain Mapping Tool Expands its Support for Fight Against COVID-19
- Green Investments, Revenue Mobilization, Big Data Key to Southeast Asia’s COVID-19 Economic Recovery
- New Focus on SDGs Needed to Rebuild After COVID-19, Says ADB Report
- How ADB is spurring innovation to lift tourism out of the COVID-19 collapse
- New ADB tool offers roadmap to unblock supplies of life-saving products
- Leveraging Digital Technologies Key to Asia’s COVID-19 Recovery - ADB
- Asian Development Bank and World Bank join forces for a resilient recovery in South Asia
- ADB Calls for Far-Reaching Reforms to Build Resilient Education Systems Amid COVID-19
- $9 Billion ADB Facility to Help Members Access and Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines
- ADB, Gojek to Initiate Research on Digitization, COVID-19 Impact on MSMEs
- ADB President, OECD Secretary General Agree to Deepen Cooperation Toward Robust and Sustainable Recovery
- ADB President, UK Minister for Asia Agree to Strengthen Cooperation on Climate Resilient Recovery from COVID-19
- ADB Allocates $20 Million to Help Developing Members Access Vaccines for COVID-19
- ADB Approves Policy Framework for Exposure Exchanges with Multilateral Development Banks
- Recovery from COVID-19 Must Be Nature Positive, ADB VP Tells Webinar
- MSMEs Key to Southeast Asia's Post-COVID-19 Recovery — ADB
- Green Finance Recovery Mechanisms Needed to Meet Infrastructure Financing Gap in Southeast Asia — ADB
- Digital Transformation in a Post-COVID-19 World
- ADB Approves $1 Million Grant to Build Disease Resilient and Energy Efficient Centralized Air-Conditioning Systems
- ADB Vows to be Developing Asia's Partner for Recovery From COVID-19
- Targeted Responses Needed to Combat Youth Unemployment Crisis — ADB-ILO Report
- New ADB tool offers roadmap to unblock supplies of life-saving products
- Rebuilding from COVID-19 Requires Green, Resilient, Inclusive Actions — ADB President
- 'Safety, Data, and Green' the Keywords to Transport Sector's Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19, Says ADB President
- Experts Call for Stronger Risk Management on Health and Water Disasters in Wake of COVID-19 Pandemic
- Public Transport Can Bounce Back from COVID-19 with New and Green Technology, Says ADB
- ADB, HSBC to Finance $1.2 Billion in Trade to Boost Supplies of Pandemic Products in Asia and the Pacific
- ADB, GCF Commit to Partnership to Boost Green Recovery from COVID-19
- ADB Strengthens Partnership with WHO to Help Asia and the Pacific Combat COVID-19
- Policy Recommendations for Developing Economies in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
- Renewable Energy Investment, Business Continuity Plans Key to Pacific Utilities Rebounding from COVID-19
- COVID-19 Economic Impact Could Reach $8.8 Trillion Globally — New ADB Report
- ADB's Response to COVID-19: on the Side of Our Developing Members in Their Time of Need
- ADB Study Maps Supply Chains for Key Products in COVID-19 Response
- Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: World Leaders Call for Action on COVID-19
- ADB Triples COVID-19 Response Package to $20 Billion
- ADB Announces $6.5 Billion Initial Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
- Responding to a Crisis Like No Other
- COVID-19 Response Page
- International community must act to avert a two-speed global economic recovery post Covid-19
- African Development Bank 2021 Annual Meetings: Members show support for plan to tackle Covid-19
- African Union holds global conference to accelerate African vaccine development and manufacturing capacity
- African Development Bank President calls for Global Vaccine Solidarity and Justice for Africa
- African Development Bank President says vaccines and debt relief will be key to Africa’s recovery from COVID-19
- African Development Bank, 11 leading Multilateral Development Banks, IMF launch first joint report on financing the sustainable development goals
- The African Development Bank launches $50 million facility to support energy access companies through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
- Finance In Common summit rallies 450 development banks to ramp up, deepen collective efforts to address fragility beyond COVID-19
- Development finance institutions pledge to sustain COVID-19 mitigation, livelihood recovery
- African Development Bank approves $27.33 million to ramp up the African Union’s COVID-19 Response Initiative
- “We must help Africa build back boldly, but smartly,” says African Development Bank President Adesina
- Financial, development and humanitarian arms provide $20 million to curb the impact of COVID-19 on refugees and their hosts in the Sahel
- Post COVID-19: Africa’s growth stands to rebound to 3% in 2021, African Development Bank says in African Economic Outlook 2020 Supplement
- African Development Bank unveils strategy roadmap to safeguard food security against impacts of COVID-19
- International cooperation can address COVID-19 challenges, says African Development Bank Vice President Khaled Sherif
- African Development Bank joins Sanitation and Water for All’s global call to action for safe and accessible water amid COVID-19 pandemic
- African leaders laud African Development Bank President for visionary leadership amid COVID crisis
- ‘We must not take our eyes off climate change threats as we battle COVID-19’
- African Development Bank Group unveils $10 billion Response Facility to curb COVID-19
- African Development Bank announces bold measures to curb coronavirus
- African Development Bank launches record breaking $3 billion “Fight COVID-19” Social Bond
- African Development Bank approves $2 million emergency assistance for WHO-led measures to curb COVID-19 in Africa
West African Development Bank (BOAD)
- BOAD’s action on COVID-19
- COVID-19: In support to emergency measures, BOAD grants XOF120 billion to the WAEMU member countries and freezes debt repayment involving XOF76.6 billion
Development Bank of Latin America (CAF)
- COVID-19 Response Page
- CAF Invests in Brazilian COVID Testing Startup
- JBIC of Japan grants a new loan to CAF for USD 90 million to help with the health emergency in Latin America
- CAF to Allot USD 1 Billion to Support Vaccination and Latin America’s Health Sector
- Startups and Digital SMEs are Key to Iberoamerica's Recovery after the Pandemic, Says New Report
- Latin America and the Caribbean: digital transformation key to recovery and building back better, says new report
- Digital Transformation to Aid Latin American Governments in Fight against COVID-19
- COVID19: CAF makes USD 2.5 billion available for countries to protect their population and economies
- CAF makes USD 300 million available to meet Coronavirus contingencies in Latin America
- Rising deforestation puts Amazon at risk of becoming virus hotspot
- To-date, More Global COVID-19-era Environmental Policies Threaten Nature Rather than Support it
- Conservation International Statement in Support of Wildlife Conservation 20’s Urgent Message to the G20: Invest in Nature or Face Growing Pandemic Risk
- We Must Not Overlook Indigenous Peoples in the Coronavirus Fight
- STUDY: Investments in Nature-Based Pandemic Prevention Would Save Trillions Compared to Prevention Response
- Impact of Coronavirus on Nature
- New Essay Highlights COVID-19 Consequences for Protected and Conserved Areas
- Conservation International Shares Policy Recommendations Linking Nature and COVID-19 Recovery
- Deforestation Drives Disease Spread; Preventing It Must Be Part Of Long-Term COVID-19 Recovery Plans
- An open letter from our CEO, Dr. M. Sanjayan
- Conservation International Statement on Postponed Global Conservation Events
Development Bank of Southern Africa
- DBSA hands over 110 Isolation Pods as part of COVID-19 Response
- DBSA response to COVID-19 and the nation-wide lockdown
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- COVID-19 Response Page
- Survey: energy chiefs tell EBRD how they see sector recovering post-Covid-19
- EBRD and UN Women join forces to address pandemic’s economic impact on women
- EBRD reports record 2020 investment in response to Covid-19
- Emerging economies at crossroads as state role set to grow in wake of Covid-19
- EBRD and FAO approve Covid-19 technical support package
- EBRD sets path to resilient, “majority green” future
- EBRD revises down economic forecasts amid continuing coronavirus uncertainty
- EBRD and EU to further support coronavirus response and recovery in EU Neighbourhood
- EBRD launches assessment tool to help mitigate coronavirus impact
- FAO-led global COVID-19 Food Coalition gains momentum
- EBRD responds to coronavirus with record high H1 investments
- Gender and crisis recovery: building back better
- EBRD continues to deliver record levels of trade finance to emerging markets
- EBRD targets coronavirus financing of €21 billion through 2021
- The EBRD’s coronavirus solidarity package
- EBRD unveils €1 billion emergency coronavirus financing package
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- COVID-19 Response Page
- New international expert panel to address the emergence and spread of zoonotic diseases
- Ensuring plant health in a post-COVID-19 world
- FAO welcomes €40 million from Germany to help farmers withstand shocks like COVID-19 and extreme climate events
- Global fisheries and aquaculture hard hit by COVID-19 pandemic, says FAO report
- UN agencies warn that COVID-19 and worsening inequalities will fuel malnutrition for billions in Asia and the Pacific
- Impact of COVID-19 on people's livelihoods, their health and our food systems
- Collaborative Partnership on Forests urges to turn the historic challenge of COVID-19 into an opportunity for forestry and sustainability
- FAO launches Green Cities Initiative to help transform agri-food systems, end hunger and improve nutrition
- FAO launches Hand-in-Hand geospatial data platform to help build stronger food and agriculture sectors post COVID-19
- FAO launches the new COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme outlining seven key priority areas
- Global food markets still brace for uncertainty in 2020/21 because of COVID-19 says FAO
- Emerging data suggest COVID-19 is driving up hunger in vulnerable countries
- FAO stresses the need for investment now to sustain Africa's agriculture in a post COVID-19 era
- Task Force Focusing on Impacts of COVID-19 on Africa’s Food Security Begins Work
- COVID-19: Using economic stimulus to reduce the long-term hunger impact
- Joint Statement on COVID-19 Impacts on Food Security and Nutrition
- COVID-19: FAO and African Union commit to safeguarding food security amid crisis
- Mitigating impacts of COVID-19 on food trade and markets
- Q&A: COVID-19 pandemic – impact on food and agriculture
- COVID-19 Policy Briefs Collection
Foreign Economic Cooperation Office
Inter-American Development Bank
- COVID-19 Response Page
- IDB and The GovLab Partner to Bring Innovation to the Fight Against COVID-19
- IDB to Support Latin America and the Caribbean to Negotiate Faster Access to Vaccines
- IDB announces Build Forward initiative to advance technology and resilience in Caribbean
- IDB Mobilizes $1 Billion for COVID-19 Vaccine Financing in Latin America and the Caribbean
- IDB supports health, social and economic COVID-19 resilience in OECS Caribbean countries
- E-Government Ministerial meeting will support economic and social recovery post COVID-19
- Caribbean economies urged to invest in infrastructure to secure post-COVID growth
- IDB report urges multidimensional approach to improve inclusive and sustainable growth
- IDB report highlights post-pandemic reform priorities for Caribbean region
- IDB report urges new social compact to spur growth, tackle pandemic and inequity
- IDB expands coverage for COVID-19 and public health risks in contingent loans
- Business leaders unveil recommendations to face COVID-19
- IDB approves more funding for Central America and the Dominican Republic to fight COVID-19
- Coronavirus Impact Dashboard: the effects of social distancing measures
- IDB to finance regional projects to support coordinated COVID-19 response
- IDB Group announces priority support areas for countries affected by COVID-19
International Fund for Agricultural Development
- COVID-19 Response Page
- New investment in digital solutions will connect Latin American farmers to markets and banking services in response to COVID-19 restrictions
- Indigenous Peoples are critical to build a more sustainable post-pandemic world, says IFAD President
- Governments need to halt the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on rural women, says IFAD President on International Day of Rural Women
- The role of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in transforming food systems within the context of COVID-19
- Sweden commits funds to IFAD to help avert COVID-19 food crisis
- Indigenous Peoples are crucial partners to build a better post–COVID-19 world, says IFAD President
- On International Day of Family Remittances, IFAD calls for remittance service providers to be declared essential businesses in times of crisis
- IFAD’s response to the COVID-19 crisis - protecting and enhancing rural resilience
- New IFAD fund launched to help prevent rural food crisis in wake of COVID-19
- Dealing with the COVID-19 crisis
- Making sure rural communities won't be left behind in the response to COVID-19
International Union for Conservation of Nature
- COVID-19 fallout undermining nature conservation efforts
- New WHO-IUCN Expert Working Group on Biodiversity, Climate, One Health and Nature-based Solutions
- New IUCN initiative urges governments to invest in nature as part of their recovery from the global pandemic
- Nature's Future, Our Future - The World Speaks
- Pan-African Response to COVID-19: New Forms of Environmental Peacebuilding Emerge
- Six million Euros made available for conservation action to counter COVID-19 impacts
- IUCN calls on business to put nature at the heart of economic recovery plans
- IUCN Acting Director General's statement for International Day for Biological Diversity
- IUCN Asia statement
- IUCN’s advice to the World Heritage Committee following the COVID-19 pandemic
- IUCN statement on the COVID-19 pandemic
- IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020 postponed
United Nations Development Programme
- COVID-19 Response Page
- Vaccine inequity undermining global economic recovery
- Rich and poor divide set to widen if pandemic impact runs unabated, new UN report says
- COVID-19 and crisis contexts one year on: What have we learnt? How can we fast-track recovery?
- UNDP calls for temporary basic income to help world’s poorest women cope with effects of COVID-19 pandemic
- Call to Action: Vaccine Equity Declaration
- UNDP in partnership with Turkish Government launches a new report for effective COVID-19 response
- Lessons Learned and Strategies: PPE for COVID-19 Response
- UNDP launches new COVID-19 Data Futures Platform
- COVID-19 could push the number of people living in extreme poverty to over 1 billion by 2030, says UNDP study
- COVID-19 & Poverty
- Migrants essential to recovery of global development post COVID-19
- COVID-19 : Countries urged to take stronger action to stop spread of harmful information
- COVID-19: PwC partners with UN Development Programme on private sector strategies for pandemic recovery
- Digital finance, a lifeline during COVID-19 crisis, can deliver long-term financing of the Sustainable Development Goals
- COVID-19: Cities in the frontline of response and recovery: calls for adequate investments at local level
- Temporary Basic Income to protect the world's poorest people could slow the surge in COVID-19 cases, says UNDP
- COVID-19: New Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for global response
- COVID-19: Germany doubles its support to UNDP’s flexible core funding
- Discussing Human Rights, Rule of Law and the renewed social contract in the COVID-19 reality
- COVID-19: Inter-Agency Statement on Violence against Women and Girls
- UNDP: Governments must lead fight against coronavirus misinformation and disinformation
- The COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity to reimagine human mobility
- COVID-19: New UNDP data dashboards reveal huge disparities among countries in ability to cope and recover
- UN sets out COVID-19 social and economic recovery plan
- COVID-19: $30 million Rapid Response Facility launched for vulnerable countries
- UNDP and Hackster.io partner to launch a global innovation challenge to tackle COVID-19
- Statement by UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner on UN COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan
- COVID-19: Looming crisis in developing countries threatens to devastate economies and ramp up inequality
United Nations Environment Programme
- COVID-19 Response Page
- Are we on track for a green recovery? Not Yet
- Green pandemic recovery essential to close climate action gap – UN report
- African Ministers of the Environment commit to support a green COVID-19 recovery plan
- Four principles for wildlife management to reduce the risks of future pandemics
- Escaping the ‘Era of Pandemics’: Experts warn worse crises to come options offered to reduce risk
- Historic UN Summit on Biodiversity sets stage for a global movement toward a green recovery from COVID-19
- United in Science report: Climate change has not stopped for COVID19
- From promise to action: Sustainability at the heart of COVID-19 recovery
- Freshwater ecosystems tool enables SDG reporting to continue despite COVID-19
- Global tourism sector should continue fight against plastic pollution during and after COVID-19 – new UN recommendations
- Unite human, animal and environmental health to prevent the next pandemic – UN Report
- Electric mobility could help clean the air and boost green jobs as part of the COVID-19 recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean
- We need a total fossil fuel lockdown for a climate revolution
- Falling clean energy costs provide opportunity to boost climate action in COVID-19 recovery packages
- COVID-19 updates from UNEP
- Working with the environment to protect people: UNEP’s Covid-19 response
- UNEP steps up work on zoonotics, protecting environment to reduce pandemic risks
- “Earth School” launches to keep students connected to nature in the time of COVID-19
- Statement from the Partnership for Action on Green Economy: The Choices We Make Now Will Shape the Future
- UNEP Statement on COVID-19
- Waste management an essential public service in the fight to beat COVID-19
- planetGOLD: COVID-19 Updates and Resources
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- COVID-19 Response Page
- Strengthening Africa's pharmaceutical industry: learning the lessons from COVID-19
- Japanese technologies help Africa and Asia fight COVID-19
- Digitalization crucial to SIDs’ COVID-19 recovery, long-term development
- Japanese technology to fight COVID-19 in Africa and Asia
- Coronavirus: the economic impact – 21 October 2020
- How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective
- New publication on digital transformation and industrial recovery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- New publication: Business continuity and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis
- UNIDO showcases public-private partnership models in the largest gathering of the UN and the private sector to recover better, stronger and together
- UNIDO launches COVID-19 Industrial Recovery Programme
- COVID-19: Responding to the Crisis. Building a Better Future
- COVID-19 in Kenya: UNIDO raises awareness about food safety
- UNIDO, Norway to help SMEs mitigate negative economic impact of COVID-19
- Director General’s message to Member States on the UNIDO response to COVID-19
- UN launches COVID-19 plan that could ‘defeat the virus and build a better world’
- COVID-19 Response Page
- Economic Recovery in East Asia and Pacific Faces Setback
- COVAX and World Bank to Accelerate Vaccine Access for Developing Countries
- World Bank Group’s $157 Billion Pandemic Surge Is Largest Crisis Response in Its History
- Remarks to the Media by World Bank Group President David Malpass on World Bank Group Action on COVID-19 Vaccines for Developing Countries
- World Bank Group President David Malpass: Statement on COVID-19 Response and Vaccinations for Developing Countries
- World Bank Launches Early IDA20 Replenishment to Help Poorest Countries Recover from the COVID-19 Crisis
- Gaps Remain in Countries Readiness to Deploy COVID-19 Vaccines
- Empowering the Poorest Countries Towards a Resilient Recovery
- COVID-19 response: Where we stand now, and the road ahead
- COVID crisis is fueling food price rises for world's poorest
- Remarks by World Bank Group President David Malpass at the Virtual Meeting on the Africa COVID-19 Vaccine Financing and Deployment Strategy
- 2020 Year in Review: The impact of COVID-19 in 12 charts
- Reversing Setbacks to Poverty Reduction Requires Nations to Work Together for a Resilient Recovery
- COVID-19: Remittance Flows to Shrink 14% by 2021
- Impact of COVID-19 on Commodity Markets Heaviest on Energy Prices; Lower Oil Demand Likely to Persist Beyond 2021
- World Bank Approves $12 Billion for COVID-19 Vaccines
- COVID-19 to Add as Many as 150 Million Extreme Poor by 2021
- September 21, 2020: COVID-19 response, new research on human capital, and looking ahead to our Annual Meetings
- Pandemic Threatens Human Capital Gains of the Past Decade, New Report Says
- New child and youth mortality estimates show dramatic reductions, but progress is threatened by impact of COVID-19
- Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative invests in over 15,000 women-led businesses amidst COVID-19 crisis
- A strong COVID-19 response, and a road to recovery
- Productivity Growth, Key Driver of Poverty Reduction, Threatened by COVID-19 Disruptions
- Long-term Climate Strategies Critical to Ensuring Sustainable Recovery for Countries, Says New World Bank Report
- COVID-19 Could Lead to Permanent Loss in Learning and Trillions of Dollars in Lost Earnings
- COVID-19 to Plunge Global Economy into Worst Recession since World War II
- Coronavirus makes investing in climate adaptation more urgent than ever
- COVID-19 Intensifies the Urgency to Expand Sustainable Energy Solutions Worldwide
- World Bank Group: 100 Countries Get Support in Response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings 2020: Development Committee Communiqué
- Immediate Debt Suspension for Poorest Countries
- The World Bank Group Moves Quickly to Help Countries Respond to COVID-19
- World Bank Group Launches First Operations for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Emergency Health Support, Strengthening Developing Country Responses
- How the World Bank Group is helping countries with COVID-19 (coronavirus)
- A Call to Stop the Next Pandemic
- Health & Conservation Leaders Issue Joint Call to Shut Down High-Risk Wildlife Markets to Help Curb Future Outbreaks
- WWF & COVID-19
Conventions
Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
- Communication regarding COVID-19 and upcoming BRS meetings
- Certainty amid the uncertainties
- COVID19: Factsheet on Environmentally Sound Management of Medical Waste
- Waste management an essential public service in the fight to beat COVID-19
Convention on Biological Diversity
- Government pandemic spending measures continue to harm biodiversity: UN Biodiversity Convention discusses biodiversity, One Health and response to COVID-19
- New IPBES report suggests transformative change urgently needed in global approach to infectious diseases
- New dates announced for UN Biodiversity Convention meetings crucial to development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
- World celebrates nature as a source of solutions to global challenges
- Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Health Day
- Revised dates and venue announced for two critical UN Biodiversity Convention meetings
Minamata Convention on Mercury
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
- Role of land in COVID-19 response
- UNCCD and COVID-19 crisis: land-based solutions for people and planet
- It takes the right information to build back better
- UN statement on youth and COVID-19
- The animals that are the cause of our infections did not seek us out, we sought them (French)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- New Online Platform Is Key Resource for Green Recovery Measures, NDCs
- Open Letter by the Executive Secretary on COVID-19
- COP26 Postponed
Related information
- World Health Organization - COVID-19 Information portal
- United Nations - COVID-19 Information portal
Updated on October 1, 2021