Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation, the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP4) is organized in two segments: a first segment to be conducted online within the period of November 1-5, 2021 and a second segment to be conducted in-person in the first quarter of 2022 in Bali, Indonesia.
The COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, hosted by the UK in partnership with Italy, took place from October 31 to November 12, 2021 at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, UK.
The GEF engaged in multiple events and activities related to COP26 priorities around mitigation, adaptation, finance, and collaboration.
You may be aware that food plays an important role in human health. Did you know it is also critical to the health of our planet?
Food systems are major drivers of global forest and biodiversity loss, land and soil degradation, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Freetown, located at the seaward tip of a heavily forested, mountainous peninsula, is the capital of Sierra Leone, dominating its urban, economic, and social landscape. Each year, more than 100,000 people in search of employment move to the city, and the urban fringes continue to push deeper into the steep forest expanses outside the city. As a result, an equivalent of 12% of total canopy in the area was lost per year between 2011 and 2018.
The Global Environment Facility has opened its fifth call for proposals eligible for blended finance support, reflecting the continued growth of its targeted support for innovative and entrepreneurial projects that can yield global environmental benefits.
To meet the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement and to reduce increasing air pollution, it is essential that low- and middle-income countries are part of a global shift to zero-emissions electric mobility. The GEF-supported Global Electric Mobility Program, led by the United Nations Environment Programme and implemented in collaboration with leading international organizations and partners from the private sector, finance, and academia was developed to support countries in meeting their electric mobility goals.
