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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the largest multilateral trust fund focused on enabling developing countries to invest in nature, and supports the implementation of major international environmental conventions including on biodiversity, climate change, chemicals, and desertification. The GEF was established on eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems. Since then, the GEF has provided over 114billioningrantsandmobilizedinexcessof114 billion in grants and mobilized in excess of 114billioningrantsandmobilizedinexcessof70 billion in additional financing for more than 4,000 projects. The GEF has become an international partnership of 184 countries, international institutions, civil society organizations, and private sector to address global environmental issues.

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Environmental Services

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51-200 employees

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Washington, DC

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Nonprofit

Founded

1992

Specialties

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, International Waters, Adaptation, Energy Efficiency, and Protected Areas

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🌳#GenerationRestoration event alert 📢 🌟The Restoration Initiative Series🌟 📅 Date: 3 Oct 2024 ⌚Time: 11:00:AM - 12:30:PM (GMT+2 / Rome time) 🌟Topic: Best practices and success stories on ecosystem restoration 🔗Registration link: https://bit.ly/3XYPEVf🌐 Translation EN-FR available The Restoration Initiative (TRI) is launching a #GenerationRestoration series of webinars to showcase its achievements in large-scale Forest and Landscape Restoration projects across Africa and Asia. Since 2018, TRI has united three Global Environment Facility agencies — IUCN, FAO, and UN Environment Programme — with nine countries to overcome barriers to sustainable restoration: 🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau, 🇨🇲Cameroon, 🇨🇩DRC, 🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe, 🇨🇫CAR, 🇰🇪Kenya, 🇹🇿Tanzania, 🇨🇳China and 🇵🇰Pakistan. This event is part of a broader series aimed at sharing best practices and demonstrating the impact of collaborative efforts between local communities and decision-makers at all levels. The first webinar will share the best practice lessons of the in-country teams and their TRI projects. Each participating country team will reflect on one or two of their most insightful and valuable experiences and explain how this can contribute to future ecosystem restoration projects.IUCN | FAO | UN Environment Programme | Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration | Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) | World Resources Institute | Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT | Yale Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative | Ecosystem Restoration Camps | Greenpop | #naturebasedsolutions
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🌊✨ This week, Uruguay hosted the 10th International Waters Conference (#IWC10) in Punta del Este, bringing together over 300 delegates from around the world. Under the theme "Transformative actions and impacts for the water and ocean SDGs: The GEF IW response to the global challenge," leaders and experts united to tackle pressing global issues in water and ocean sustainability. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been a pivotal force in advancing ocean and freshwater projects, mobilizing over 3billioningrantsand3 billion in grants and 3billioningrantsand19 billion in co-financing across 157 countries over the last 30 years. 🌍💧 Key highlights included GEF’s Fred Boltz opening the conference by reinforcing the importance of cooperation to manage shared marine and freshwater resources and to conserve the natural ecosystems and biodiversity that underpin their productivity and resilience. GEF’s Andrew Hume discussed the opportunities offered by the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (#BBNJ) agreement to promote harmonization and policy coherence, and Verona Collantes-Lebale led a workshop on gender mainstreaming & social inclusion in GEF-IW projects.IW:LEARN launched an interactive digital story map with stories and videos covering 30 successful GEF International Waters projects. 🤝 Explore the map here: https://gef-globe.web.app/ #GEFIW2024Nicolas Marquez Pizzanelli | Alexandre Pinheiro Rego | Ines Benabdallah | Taylor Henshaw | Ministerio de Ambiente, Uruguay | UNESCO | UN Environment Programme | PNUD Uruguay | Ministry of Tourism - Uruguay
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The Global Environment Facility has a very specific role in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the multilateral environmental conventions. So, the decisions being taken here at the UN General Assembly #UNGA are instrumental for organizations like the GEF in our aspiration to have more impact and results from the countries that we work with. The international community has made a lot of progress with the #SDGs but hasn’t been able to address the big gaps associated with mobilization of financial resources. And this is critical in the effort of sustainability. Its not just about mobilizing more resources from the global North to the global South, or from the philanthropic and private sectors. It’s about generating more political coherence in national development policies, plans, and budgeting at the national level. This is because today, most countries still continue to invest more in sectors and activities that destroy nature and contribute to climate change than in ways to reverse it. That is why it is important there are bold and ambitious decisions taken here at the #UNGA with regards to the future. The adoption yesterday of the Pact for the Future is a very good step forward where inclusion, dignity and support to #youth is central.#OurCommonFuture
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Après avoir participé à l'ouverture du Sommet pour l'Avenir, le Président de la Transition, Général Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, a rencontré Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, président du Fonds pour l'Environnement mondial (FEM). Leur échange a porté sur la biodiversité, la protection de l'environnement et le conflit homme-faune. 𝐏𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐬 𝐝’𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 : https://urls.fr/AxrCn8
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It was an honor to speak on #biodiversity #finance at the "Green Diplomacy II: Peace and Biodiversity, the Road to COP16" event, hosted by the Embassy of Colombia and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).#Colombia's biodiversity is extraordinary, with over 56,000 species, many found nowhere else. However, preserving this heritage requires innovative financing strategies. Key takeaways from my panel discussion included the need to: ✅ Mobilize domestic resources more efficiently to align with finance for nature. ✅ Generate policy coherence to redirect funds from harmful activities to initiatives that protect our ecosystems. As we approach #COP16Colombia, let’s work together to ensure that our financial systems prioritize nature and promote sustainable development for all.

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