This project which builds on the achievements of the GEF-funded pilot phase project seeks to operationalize the recently passed Coastal Zone Management Act. This Act provides the institutional framework for the implementation of targeted interventions for biodiversity protection. Belize's coastal zone is made up of globally significant diversity of ecosystems and organisms, including the longest barrier reef (220 km long) in the Western Hemisphere. Five of the marine protected areas (MPAs) targeted in this project are World Heritage Sites.

The objective of this project is to assist the Republic of Turkmenistan in the rapid phase-out of ODS consistent with the international efforts and in this direction. The project will assist the Republic of Turkmenistan in meeting its phase-out obligations under the Montreal Protocol within a realistic time frame and ensure availability of technical assistance to expedite the implementation of the country program.

The project will assist the Republic of Uzbekistan in meeting its phase-out obligations under the Montreal Protocol within a realistic time frame and ensure availability of technical assistance to expedite the implementation of the country programme. The project targets priority ODS phase-out activities in the refrigeration sector and also proposes modest technical assistance at the institutional and enterprise levels to facilitate implementation of the country programme.

The SDC concept originates from a unique partnership between the World Bank Group and a number of U.S. charitable foundations as a response to the gap between the enormous potential demand for electricity in off-grid markets and the very limited supply to date of off-grid power from photovoltaic (PV) systems – despite PV’s apparent ability to produce reliable and relatively cost-effective power in off-grid applications. The objective of SDC is to increase the delivery of solar home systems (SHS) and thus bring environmentally clean electricity to rural households in developing countries.

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The objective of the project is to assist the riparian countries of the East Asian Seas to collectively protect and manage their heavily stressed coastal and marine environments through intergovernmental and intersectoral partnerships. These countries include the Republic of Korea which for the first time is a GEF recipient.

This project will assist the national Government to comply with the provisions of the UNFCCC.

This project will assist the national Government to comply with the provisions of the UNFCCC.

The Lop Nur region of Gashun Gobi desert, formerly a nuclear testing site, was recently declared by the Chinese Government as a Nature Sanctuary. The Lop Nur Sanctuary is home to the last surviving genetically pure herd of wild Bactrian camels (Camelus bactrianus ferus) in the world. With the cessation of nuclear testing, it was critical that the area be granted protected status to prevent damaging human encroachment of this unique Central Asian dry-land ecosystem, especially by illegal miners and hunters, the most serious threats to the wild camel’s survival.

Establishing a monitoring system to measure the well-being of the ecosystems of the Galapagos Islands