At its 59th meeting in December 2020, the GEF Council requested the Trustee of the Global Environment Facility, in cooperation with the Secretariat, to initiate discussions for the eight replenishment of resources of the GEF Trust Fund (GEF-8) to fund activities during the four-year period from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026.
Understanding the potential of innovation and entrepreneurship, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) established the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP) to promote cleantech innovation and entrepreneurship to address urgent environmental challenges. The Global Environment Facility is a key partner for GCIP, as well as the Green Climate Fund and other bilateral partners.
Governments, businesses, and communities around the world worked throughout 2021 to keep advancing global environmental priorities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are highlights from the collaborative action by the Global Environment Facility and its partners on biodiversity, chemicals, cities, climate change, food systems, ocean health, waste, wildlife trafficking, and more:
“Asuncion Green City of the Americas – Pathways to Sustainability” is one of the GEF investments aiming to support Asuncion’s ambition to become a green and sustainable city. Through an integrated approach, the project seeks to advance integrated land use planning of the Metropolitan Area of Asuncion (AMA), reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation and waste, reduce unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants, and improve protected area management in the AMA.
The Global Environment Facility’s member governments, meeting on its 30th anniversary, approved new funding to keep advancing international conservation priorities through the pandemic and to bring 2030 goals within closer reach.
