Bonn, 17/06/2011. “Yesterday, the ‘First Africa Drylands Week’ ended with a simple, yet new, message: the drylands are areas with great potential for the development and sustainable growth of its populations and nations. We must translate this into reality in economic terms with regard to the costs of inaction in relation to the costs and benefits of action in order to convince treasuries that the drylands should no longer be ‘deserts’ of investment,” Mr. Luc Gnacadja, the UN’s top advisor on land degradation, desertification and drought,
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Washington, June 2, 2011 – Germany and Australia have made new pledges to the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (LDCF), established by the United Nations Climate Convention to finance adaptation for the most vulnerable.
Washington, D.C. June 3, 2011 – The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the world’s largest public financer of global environment issues, will operate a new landmark fund to help developing countries to ratify and implement a key international agreement to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity. 
May 27, 2011, Washington, D.C. – The governing body of the world’s largest public environmental fund, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), this week made an historic decision to embrace qualified national agencies as implementing partners in a new policy to broaden and strengthen the GEF’s network of agencies.
WASHINGTON, DC, April 13, 2011 – The Global Environment Facility has provided a grant of $4.2 million to demonstrate both the local and global environmental benefits of the green truck technology to more than 500,000 truck operators in Guangdong Province of China.