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MEx30x30 project launches with $18.5 million for Mexico biodiversity conservation
The launch of a new $18.5 million investment from the Global Environment Facility, the MEx30x30: Conserving Mexican Biodiversity Through Communities and Their Protected Areas project, will advance biodiversity conservation across Mexico.
New biodiversity fund approves project preparation grants
The Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) has approved project preparation grants and set aside nearly $40 million to support new proposed initiatives in Brazil, Gabon, and Mexico, providing a boost to international efforts to put nature on a path to recovery this decade.
Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program
Under the seventh GEF replenishment, GEF-7, Impact Programs (IPs) on Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR); Sustainable Forest Management (SFM); and Sustainable Cities are being developed to address the drivers of environmental degradation, and to support transformational change in these key systems.
Indigenous peoples and COVID-19: response and resilience
This year’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples offers a moment to reflect on how difficult the COVID-19 pandemic has been for indigenous peoples around the world and how much promise there is from ongoing initiatives to support and engage these communities who have much to teach the world about resilience, traditional medicine, and protection of both land and sea.