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GEF Council to mark 30 years of collaboration #ForThePlanet
On the 30th anniversary of the Global Environment Facility’s founding, representatives of 184 member governments, heads of international environmental conventions, and agency partners will meet to consider new support for climate change adaptation through the Least Developed Countries Fund and GEF financing for programs and projects to help countries through and following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Good Practice Brief: Participatory Conservation and Peacebuilding in Dry Forest as Production Landscape
The dry forest ecosystem is a high conservation priority in Colombia. This project seeks to promote the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in dry forests to ensure the flow of ecosystem services and to mitigate deforestation and desertification in the Caribbean region and the Inter-Andean Valley of the Magdalena River (VIRM) in Colombia. The project contributed to the flow of multiple global and local ecosystem services, including carbon storage, food production, water supply, fodder supply, and biodiversity habitat.
Supporting solutions across sectors and silos
Ibrahima Sow leads the Global Environment Facility’s programming related to Africa, including the Great Green Wall Initiative that tackles desertification, land degradation, and climate change together. In an interview, he shared lessons from his work enabling countries to find, share, and scale up solutions to inter-related environmental challenges.
What is your role at the GEF, and what does this work entail?
Building corridors of growth through the Sahel and beyond
Temperatures in the Sahel are increasing 1.5 times faster than the global average, and around 80 percent of the farmland has lost some degree of its natural productivity. Together, these factors diminish the availability of land for food production or grazing, deplete water, and increase the vulnerability of the people living in the region.
GEF Council provides boost to nature protection amid pandemic
In a virtual meeting, representatives of the Global Environment Facility’s 184 member countries moved this week to financially support countries seeking to protect nature and tackle environmental priorities amid the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, and endorsed new approaches to engage with the private sector and confront future zoonotic disease risks.
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