The GEF's climate adaptation funds support the V20 Group's funding program with $5.3 million for community-based adaptation activities and will also leverage funding from other sources including those that will provide complementary support to address loss and damage from climate change.

Joan Carling is Global Director of Indigenous Peoples Rights International, an organization working to protect human rights and address criminalization and violence against Indigenous Peoples. In an interview following her presentation to CSO Consultations hosted by the GEF, the UN Champion of the Earth awardee shared lessons from her 20 years of activism for a safer and more sustainable planet. 

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As the largest biodiversity conference in a decade kicked off in Montreal, mayors from 15 cities around the world called for increased direct financing to allow cities to implement ambitious greening and ecosystem restoration projects.