GEF Integrated Approach Pilot: Taking Deforestation out of Commodity Supply Chains
Today, soy, beef and palm oil yield about $92 billion a year to producers, many of whom are small-scale rural farmers. These commodities thus become important in many local and national economies. Therefore, sustainability within commodities will only be achieved by linking long-term national sustainable development plans with day-to-day value chain management.
Behind the Numbers 2015: A Closer Look at GEF Achievements
Our numbers tell a story about the depth and breadth of the GEF’s activities: In its 24-year history, the GEF has invested $14.5 billion directly, and leveraged $75.4 billion in additional resources, for 3,946 projects in 167 countries. Rooted in our role as a financial mechanism for the Rio Conventions and other multilateral agreements, the GEF is uniquely placed to help buttress the health of the global commons—the planet’s finite environmental resources, from land and forests to oceans and the atmosphere—which are essential for a thriving world.
Tackling Global Environmental Challenges through the Integrated Approach Pilots
Report for the GEF Council (June-October 2015)
The GEF and the Sustainable Development Goals
The GEF is uniquely placed to help buttress Earth’s life support systems.
GEF 2020: Strategy for the GEF
GEF2020 strategy calls for the GEF to focus on the drivers of environmental degradation, support broad coalitions of stakeholders and innovative and scalable activities.
Gender Equality Action Plan
Mainstreaming gender through GEF programs and projects presents opportunities to increase the effectiveness of its investment in enhancing global environmental benefits. The GEF recognizes gender equality as an important social goal in and of itself, with associated implications for the projects that receive GEF support. The GEF aims to achieve global environmental benefits and sustainable development by promoting issues related to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Forests and the GEF: A Brief Look at two Decades of Support for Forests
Over its 24-year history, the GEF has recognized the multiple functions of forests and promoted appropriate management systems to develop long-term, sustainable approaches to maintaining forests, the goods and services they provide, and the livelihoods they support.
