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GEF Investments in Land in Support of the UNCCD Agenda
As a financial mechanism to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) since 2003, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has provided $5.7 billion to 742 land degradation projects and programs in 144 countries, leveraging an additional $37.6 billion in co-financing.This…
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Two Decades of GEF Investments in Land
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…
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Land Degradation Neutrality Knowledge Management and Learning Initiative: Learning from the GEF Portfolio of Projects
The purpose of this learning report is to generate knowledge and share experience with the implementation of land degradation neutrality (LDN) to create a better understanding of practices that work best for mainstreaming LDN into national sustainable development agendas, learning from ongoing…