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Key to the $865.9 million work program, which if approved will be the largest single batch of projects and program ever in the history of the GEF, are four “Impact Programs”. These set out to bring countries together in an integrated approach directed at tackling the drivers of environmental destruction, and not just its symptoms. Photo: Tetyana Dotsenko/Shutterstock.

June 10, 2019 | News

Countries gather for landmark GEF Council meeting
A circular economy would both maximise the benefits of plastics and minimise their ill effects, through such measures as producing them from plants rather than fossil fuels; redesigning products to cut waste and make them last; encouraging recycling and reuse; and using plastic wastes as a resource. Such measures also need to be accompanied by reducing demand for plastic products and discouraging non-essential ones. Photo: alterfalter/Shutterstock.

June 10, 2019 | News

The circular economy: tackling plastic pollution
Speaking at the opening of the Ecosperity 2019 conference in Singapore today, Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) acknowledged “the extremely worrying picture” coming from science about the state of the planet, and highlighted a new Global Commons Alliance that is being set-up to help tackle the problem. Photo: Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock.

June 6, 2019 | News

Global Commons Alliance to help tackle threats to health of the planet
Although the Amazighe have been able to maintain Imegdale’s ecological balance through ingenious socio-ecological management systems, there are threats that render this delicate balance precarious.

June 5, 2019 | Feature Story

Harnessing traditional knowledge and innovation in Morocco, conservation and livelihoods flourish
Wheat field with sun. Photo: TTstudio/Shutterstock.

June 4, 2019 | Blog

Why investors must look beyond returns
Houses in Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Photo: takepicsforfun/Shutterstock.

June 3, 2019 | Blog

All hands on deck: the climate crisis is here
Wind turbines on Costa Rica ridgelines. Photo: Stefan Scherer-Emunds/Shutterstock.

May 30, 2019 | Blog

Helping countries improve transparency to meet bold climate commitments
Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency participant countries and donors came away from the Rome gathering reinvigorated and recommitted to making transparency a priority in the Paris process. In particular, participants gained a sense of urgency considering the rapidly approaching deadline for the new transparency reports under the Paris Agreement and its linkages to more ambitious National Determined Contributions.

May 30, 2019 | News

Countries meet to discuss efforts to increase transparency around climate change commitments
Man looking at piles of rubbish at a landfill. Photo: Comaniciu Dan/Shutterstock.

May 30, 2019 | Blog

Going circular offers a great opportunity
Indonesian farmers harvesting rice. Photo: happystock/Shutterstock.

May 29, 2019 | Blog

Transforming the food system to feed tomorrow's world
Bananas are grown extensively in Western Uganda and are an important source of livelihoods. The region is however one of the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Photo: mbrand85/Shutterstock.

May 28, 2019 | Feature Story

Building climate change resilience of banana farmers in Western Uganda
Honey bee on a flower. Photo: Zoran Kompar Photography/Shutterstock.

May 22, 2019 | Blog

Celebrating biodiversity in all corners of the world
Amazon biodiversity also plays a critical role as part of global systems, influencing the global carbon cycle and thus climate change, as well as hemispheric hydrological systems, serving as an important anchor for South American climate and rainfall. Photo: Alexandr Vorobev/Shutterstock.

May 22, 2019 | Feature Story

Why the Amazon’s biodiversity is critical for the globe
Our failure to act over the past decades means that we are increasingly accepting that a part of our climate disruption is irreversible, and looking at adapting to it. But this, of course, should not prevent us from setting targets to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to stop it getting worse. Photo: testing/Shutterstock.

May 21, 2019 | Blog

Pricing carbon will help us better deal with climate change
The GEF project – described as “a trendsetter for Madagascar” by Erik Reed, a Natural Resources Management Specialist with the World Bank aims to reverse degradation of natural resources, while increasing the value of production, thus developing a model for integrated landscape management that can be replicated and scaled up across the country. Photo: Milan Zygmunt/Shutterstock.

May 21, 2019 | Feature Story

Protecting land and livelihoods in Madagascar