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With record pledges, GEF aims for more flexible environmental funding
Earlier this month, the Global Environment Facility announced a record-setting $5.25 billion in pledges to support conservation and environmental protection programs worldwide over the next four years.
The 30% budget increase for one of the world’s largest and most influential environmental funders is accompanied by a shift in the GEF’s approach to grant-making, according to Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, its CEO and Chairperson.
Resilient Food Systems 2021 Annual Report
The Resilient Food Systems (RFS) program is one of three Integrated Approach Pilot programs financed by the GEF during the sixth replenishment cycle (GEF-6).
In 2021, the RFS program made significant progress toward enhancing the long-term resilience and sustainability of smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa. The 2021 Programme Highlights showcases the achievements and innovations of the RFS regional partners, country project teams and beneficiary communities across 12 targeted countries.
Welcomed increase in funding for chemicals and wastes issues made available for the GEF
The Global Environment Facility, which serves as the financial mechanism for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, has announced a substantial increase in funding, which includes a welcomed increase for issues pertaining to chemicals and waste. With 15 percent of the total allocation of funding allocated to the chemicals and waste focal area, the GEF replenishment signals the key role that chemicals and waste management plays in resolving the triple environmental planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
Biodiversity receives boost as 29 countries pledge over $5 billion to the GEF
More than $5 billion has been pledged by twenty-nine countries for the Global Environment Facility, providing a major boost to international efforts to protect biodiversity and curb threats from climate change, plastics, and toxic chemicals through collaboration action this decade.
Announced on April 8, the support totals $5.25 billion and increases the GEF’s funding by nearly 30 percent compared to its most recent four-year operating cycle.
Minamata Convention receives increased funding pledge from Global Environment Facility
At the fourth meeting of the GEF-8 replenishment on April 7-8, 2022, twenty-nine countries agreed to pledge the record support of $5.25 billion for the Global Environment Facility, a 29% increase in funding from the GEF-7 replenishment period.
Land gets a needed four-year financial boost from the Global Environment Facility
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) welcomes the pledge of $5.25 billion announced for the eighth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF-8).
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