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Global business, government and agricultural leaders announce land-focused commitments to mitigate climate change
Organizations from across sectors embrace land as a climate solution during the Global Climate Action Summit.
GEF introduces impact programs to upscale landscape restoration
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been working for over 25 years to help mitigate climate change, halt biodiversity loss and combat land degradation. The nexus between these three goals across globally important landscapes present a key opportunity to achieve them in a synergistic way through the generation of global environmental benefits across all these dimensions.
World Day to Combat Desertification 2018
How to help countries advance land degradation neutrality on the agenda of Sixth GEF Assembly
GEF-funded project in Zambia addresses key drivers of deforestation
Earlier this month, the World Bank approved a new $33 million project, funded in part by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), to improve sustainable rural livelihoods and forest protection in Zambia.
Amazon rainforest to recover 30,000 hectares by 2023
A major initiative for the restoration of degraded areas in the Brazilian Amazon calls for the restoration during the next six years of almost 30,000 hectares, which corresponds to an estimated 73 million trees.
UN desertification conference kicks off in China with focus on new efforts to tackle land degradation
The 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 13) opened today in Ordos, China.