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Winners of Inclusive GEF Assembly Challenge Program announced in Vancouver
VANCOUVER – The Global Environment Facility has selected 23 civil society organizations as winners of its Inclusive GEF Assembly Challenge Program, a novel initiative reflecting a commitment to support and elevate community-driven climate and nature projects and the unique contributions of Indigenous Peoples, women, girls, and young people across the GEF partnership.
Civil society turns focus to environmental conventions
Civil society organizations play an irreplaceable role in shaping environmental policy and outcomes, and are critically important to global efforts to address climate change, chemical pollution, biodiversity loss, and more.
'Youth, women, and elders are the ones who don’t give up'
Mirna Inés Fernández Pradel is a member of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN), an international network of young people focused on preventing biodiversity loss and protecting nature. In an interview, she shared lessons from her work to elevate youth voices internationally and expressed her hopes for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15 summit in Montreal.
Why is youth engagement around biodiversity important to you?
Prioritizing financial inclusion in climate-vulnerable countries
Green and inclusive microfinance is an emerging lending category with the potential to boost climate resilience, encourage sustainable practices, and improve livelihoods in vulnerable communities globally, civil society organizations shared in consultations convened by the Global Environment Facility ahead of its 62nd Council meeting.
GEF Council marks 30 years of results and looks to the future
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.
GEF Council to build upon three decades of environmental action
Marking 30 years of support for environmental action worldwide, the Global Environment Facility’s member governments will meet next week to consider their next steps to build a nature-positive, carbon-neutral, and pollution-free future.
The GEF Council and Least Developed Countries Fund Council meetings will be held virtually as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Adapting to climate change from the ground up
Developing countries’ climate change adaptation needs are vast, growing, and increasingly urgent.