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This information brief explores the Global Environment Facility's role and progress in the first two years of the eighth replenishment cycle as financial mechanism to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.The GEF is committed to helping developing countries transform how…

The GEF-funded planetGOLD program works to make small-scale gold mining safer, cleaner, and more profitable from mine to market—by closing the financing gap, supporting formalization, and connecting miners with mercury-free technology and formal markets.The 2023-2024 Annual Progress Report provides…

This publication contains the text of the Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility, as amended by the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh GEF Assemblies.It also incorporates the decisions of the governing bodies of the three Implementing Agencies…

This infosheet highlights GEF work from the past two years during the eighth replenishment cycle, using data from the GEF-8 Monitoring Report and Corporate Scorecard.   

The GEF-8 Corporate Scorecard is a comprehensive report on the performance of the Global Environment Facility during the GEF-8 period. In particular, the Scorecard reports on the progress made toward the achievement of the GEF-8 targets. It also looks at how the GEF is utilizing resources available…

Over the past two decades, the Global Environment Facility has provided $5.2 billion to 674 land degradation projects and programs in 144 countries - leveraging another $35.4 billion in co-financing. The world urgently needs to restore damaged ecosystems, with nearly 40% of the planet’s land…

The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched its Results Report for the reporting year 2023-2024. This report provides an overview on the concrete results achieved on global environmental and socio-economic…

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established its Financial Mechanism to facilitate the provision and transfer of resources from developed to developing countries. The Global Environment Facility became the first operating entity of the Financial Mechanism after the…

In June 2022, the LDCF/SCCF Council developed a new climate change adaptation strategy for the 2022-26 period for the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF). This strategy outlines enhanced innovation, technology transfer, and private sector engagement as a…

The GEF’s adaptation support for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is delivered through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF). The LDCF is the only multilateral fund that focuses exclusively on the unique climate adaptation challenges of LDCs and is embraced by LDCs as their own. The fund has a…