Today, Friday June 11 , marks the kick off for the soccer World Cup 2010. The GEF has contributed to the greening of the World Cup by providing energy efficient lighting of the stadiums and solar street lighting, as part of a GEF/UNEP project to mitigate climate change effects in that particular region, and invested in sustainable transport with UNDP.

However the GEF will also be present throughout the games - on most of the large screens in the stadiums with another key environmental message: "Biodiversity is Life - Biodiversity is Our Life".

ΩCEANS is a Galatee film about the world's oceans directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud. The Galatee team with the support of the Sloan Foundation on behalf of the Census of Marine Life has been working closely with scientists to ensure the scientific accuracy of the film. The film ΩCEANS offers a dynamic view of marine biodiversity. Its approach is both aesthetic and scientific. The Galatee explorers have documented the grandeur and otherness of life in the ocean.