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Countries gather for landmark GEF Council meeting
New impact programs at heart of largest-ever proposed work program
Delegates are arriving in Washington DC for one of the most important Council meetings in the history of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It is expected to mark a pioneering shift of emphasis for the organization that was established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems.
The circular economy: tackling plastic pollution
Over the last two years pollution by plastics has caught the attention, and sparked the concern, of the world. What was for long seen as a marginal, local, and largely aesthetic issue – even by some environmentalists – is now established to be one of our greatest challenges.
It is increasingly recognised as one of the prime symbols of the world's throwaway 'linear' economy and of the need to replace it with a regenerative 'circular' one, through systems – rather than piecemeal - change.
C.56 Work Program Submitted for Council Approval
GEF Trust Fund/Multi Trust Fund Program/Project Proposals submitted for Council Approval (38)
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Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) Impact Program
Global Commons Alliance to help tackle threats to health of the planet
New international network aims to transform economic systems for the benefit of society and to sustain the natural systems of Earth
SINGAPORE, June 6, 2019 – All life on Earth depends on clean air and water, biodiversity, healthy land and oceans, and a stable climate. These are the global commons: the shared resources that ensure a habitable planet upon which we can all thrive.
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