When it meets this month in Brasilia, the Global Environment Facility’s governing body will consider a record $1.4 billion work program and set the contours of a new Global Biodiversity Framework Fund, speeding up international efforts to confront species loss and related crises.

The 64th GEF Council meeting comes six months after countries agreed to a new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and sounded the alarm about the need for fast and accessible funding for the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of nature.