Zero Hunger world is within reach, but we must work together to achieve it
October 16, 2018
Today, on World Food Day, the global community is mobilizing to reach a Zero Hunger world. With a changing climate, inequality, and rapid population growth the challenges we face on the way seem insurmountable. However, with governments, private...
Unlocking economic growth through integrated natural resource planning and governance
October 4, 2018
Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in the West African Sahel, includes sparse and dry forests, woodlands, wooded and shrub savannas, and a large desert area to the North. The country relies heavily on agriculture, yet faces shrinking arable land and...
The GEF is becoming a leading champion for sustainable cities, and that matters
September 7, 2018
This autumn, the IPCC will publish its much-awaited special report on global warming of 1.5 degrees centigrade. For the first time, the world will have a clear scientific view of the rate and scale of emissions reduction is required if we are to...
The results are in: five things we've learned about making progress toward environmental objectives while addressing gender equality
August 15, 2018
We know that advancing gender equality is one of the systems changes needed to achieve environmental gains – in fact, it is shown to be a driver of progress across many Sustainable Development Goals - but there is a lack of data and evidence about...
Ensuring a world where elephants aren't the next dinosaurs
August 10, 2018
On August 12, we celebrate World Elephant Day to raise awareness on the plight of the world’s elephant population. This is an important day for me, as the Program Manager of the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) that started two years ago to combat...
The role of civil society in transforming environmental systems
August 7, 2018
How did a chemical supplier in Mozambique learn that its safety instructions were putting women and children in danger? How could female clam harvesters in Tunisia come together to create the first women’s trade union and go onto change national law...
Leveraging PPPs in Mozambique to scale conservation and promote economic development
July 30, 2018
Over the last few decades, Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs) have been used to build transportation, energy, telecommunications, and other infrastructure throughout the world. Value chains were established to foster growth in these sectors and...
How can we feed the world and keep the planet healthy? We start by making smallholder farming more sustainable
July 27, 2018
People are already consuming at a rate faster than the planet can replenish. Yet the world’s population is expected to grow from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050. This will considerably increase demand for energy, transport, buildings and food....
From decline to recovery: a rescue package for the ocean
June 15, 2018
Our relationship with the ocean is at a crossroads. The decisions we take in the next five years will determine our future, our security, our very existence. They will make or break whole economies and dictate how and where we live. And there will...
From local to global action, saving the ocean requires re-thinking our relationship with single-use plastic
June 8, 2018
You might care about the 100,000 marine mammals that die annually from plastic and you may be one of the 25 million viewers of the infamous straw-up-the-sea turtle nose video. Or it may simply be that you don’t want to eat and drink plastic, swim in...
