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Land gets a needed four-year financial boost from the Global Environment Facility
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) welcomes the pledge of $5.25 billion announced for the eighth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF-8).
'Nature needs to be an integral part of all decision making'
Albania’s Deputy Minister of Tourism and Environment Ornela Çuçi serves as her government’s official liaison to the Global Environment Facility and also represents a constituency of 12 countries at the GEF Council. In an interview, she reflected on the ways Albania is raising awareness about environmental protection as a vital part of economic growth, and shared life lessons from her career in public service.
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'The benefits of land restoration can accrue quickly'
As a child in East Germany, Ulrich Apel collected pictures of landscapes around the world, never expecting to spend his career working to restore and protect them. In an interview, he shared lessons from his efforts to reverse land degradation and empower local communities through the GEF’s Drylands Impact Program.
When did you start to become interested in global environmental issues?
UN desertification conference opens in New Delhi with an ambitious call to action
Government ministers from 196 countries, city and local leaders, non-governmental organizations, scientists and industry experts, are gathering in New Delhi, India from 2-13 September for the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP14).
The main focus of the conference is finding ways to reverse land degradation while supporting a sustainable future for communities and ecosystems.
World Day to Combat Desertification 2019: Let's grow the future together
The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD), observed every year on June 17th, promotes public awareness of international efforts to combat land degradation. WDCD 2019 theme, “Let’s Grow the Future Together,” calls for the achievement of Land Degradation Neutrality through the involvement and cooperation of all levels of the global community.
GEF Council approves largest-ever single batch of projects and programs
New investments to help bring about transformational change in key economic systems
Governments from around the world have agreed a record programme of action aimed at bringing about transformational change around the world to address an unprecedented attack on the Earth's life-support systems.
Countries gather for landmark GEF Council meeting
New impact programs at heart of largest-ever proposed work program
Delegates are arriving in Washington DC for one of the most important Council meetings in the history of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It is expected to mark a pioneering shift of emphasis for the organization that was established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems.
Towards a “Great Food Transformation”
Unsustainable food systems are threatening human health and environmental sustainability. We need to change the way we farm—and our diets.
There are more of us, we’re getting wealthier, and we’re demanding more protein-rich foods, such as meat. In the long run, this is simply not sustainable.
The dream of Pax Arabica: Through inclusive climate resilient development, the Arab states work toward the Sustainable Development Goals
The majority of the Arab States possess all the requisite elements to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. There’s a young, educated workforce, plenty of natural resources, a notable increase in investments in renewable energy, and a much-needed uptick in efforts to support equality. Climate change, conflict and other related factors threaten to derail this progress and ruin any chances of a Pax Arabica.
GEF-funded project in Zambia addresses key drivers of deforestation
Earlier this month, the World Bank approved a new $33 million project, funded in part by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), to improve sustainable rural livelihoods and forest protection in Zambia.