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Jean-Marc Sinassamy (left) on a learning mission of the Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Management Country Partnership Program, Uttarakhand, India.

'Solutions for nature are solutions for people'

Portrait of interviewee Doreen Robinson

'Environmental challenges are human challenges, and we can solve them'

In all, the landmark work program represents new priorities for the GEF to address the need for systems change as the challenges of safeguarding the global commons - the shared resources that ensure a habitable planet upon which we can all thrive - get ever greater. Photo: mbrand85/Shutterstock.

GEF Council approves largest-ever single batch of projects and programs

Key to the $865.9 million work program, which if approved will be the largest single batch of projects and program ever in the history of the GEF, are four “Impact Programs”. These set out to bring countries together in an integrated approach directed at tackling the drivers of environmental destruction, and not just its symptoms. Photo: Tetyana Dotsenko/Shutterstock.

Countries gather for landmark GEF council meeting

With two years left to deliver on the goal of zero commodity-driven deforestation by 2020, delegates from the private sector, government, civil society and academia were reminded this week in Ghana’s capital, Accra, of the need for urgent action.

Sprint to 2020: Getting deforestation out of commodities - how far are we from the finishing line?

A Zambian Forest

GEF-funded project in Zambia addresses key drivers of deforestation

Forest restoration in Thailand

Global Landscapes Forum and the "power of soil"

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Rescuing rainforests

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