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'You don't need to be a biologist to save the planet'
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez became the Global Environment Facility’s fifth CEO and Chairperson in September 2020, after decades of working with the multilateral trust fund as a government minister and parks service director in Costa Rica. In an interview, he shared his hopes for the coming year and decade, and reflected on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his first six months in a new job.
Connecting forest health to climate action
Rocío Cóndor is an FAO Forestry Officer working on the Enhanced Transparency Framework and coordinating the GEF-funded Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency work related to the forest sector, known as CBIT-Forest. In an interview, she reflected on the ways solid data can inform good decisions when it comes to sustainable forest management.
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The post-COVID opportunity for the environment
GEF CEO and Chairperson Carlos Manuel Rodriguez sees the setbacks of 2020 as an opportunity to reset society’s relationship with the environment and shift business-as-usual approaches toward more sustainable models. Speaking with Mongabay in an October 2020 interview, Rodriguez says the pandemic recovery presents a chance to rethink the economic system that “got us in this problem,” through “confrontative relationships between humans and nature.”
Costa Rica's Carlos Manuel Rodriguez takes over as head of the Global Environment Facility
Costa Rican conservationist Carlos Manuel Rodriguez today took up his new role as CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, aiming to scale up action on forestry, food and land use, and biodiversity loss, and to support ambitious results from upcoming international climate and nature negotiations.
Rodriguez, an environmental lawyer and internationally recognized expert on financing for nature conservation, was selected for the post in June by the GEF Council, the multilateral trust fund’s governing body representing 184 countries.
Mapping nature to create a global biodiversity framework
The year 2020 was considered a 'super year' for biodiversity. A string of interconnected events offered a unique opportunity to build a global coalition and international policy framework that recognized the central role of nature to all life on Earth.
Investing in nature makes more sense than ever
It is not easy to plan for the future during a pandemic or a recession. But this is 2020, and governments and businesses are working hard to navigate both challenges at once.
As they do so, it is incredibly important they cast aside the notion that the environment is a tangential concern.
The coronavirus outbreak that shut down most of the world is a zoonotic disease that jumped from wildlife to people, a symptom of growing conflict between human and natural systems.
Carlos Manuel Rodríguez nombrado nuevo CEO del Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial
El Ministro de Ambiente y Energía de Costa Rica, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, ha sido seleccionado como el próximo CEO y Presidente del Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial (GEF por sus siglas en inglés), el mayor fondo fiduciario multilateral que apoya la acción ambiental en los países en desarrollo y el principal mecanismo de financiamiento para múltiples convenciones ambientales de las Naciones Unidas.