April 15, 2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) this week held a two-day strategy meeting at the Bank headquarters in Tunis to discuss new programming opportunities in Africa including programmatic approaches to the challenges of Lake Chad Basin.
Stepping up fast-start climate financing commitments – taking action on adaptation needs of the most vulnerable countries
On March 14 and 15, 2011 UNIDO took the initiative to organize a GEF Seminar at its Headquarters in Vienna, Austria aimed at equipping its technical, managerial, and field staff with the latest knowledge on the GEF-5 policies and procedures. This seminar was delivered jointly by Mr. Ibrahima Sow and Mr. Andrew Velthaus of the GEF Secretariat, and Mr. George Anestis and Ms. Ganna Onysko of UNIDO, who attended the annual GEF Familiarization Seminar organized by the Secretariat in Washington, DC in January, 2011.
(Bujumbura, Burundi) — Invasive species can cause significant damage to both biodiversity and productivity of natural and agricultural ecosystems. One well‐known example in the region is the invasion of water hyacinth and Nile perch in Lake Victoria in the 1990s, which caused hundreds of fish species to disappear, some to become extinct and the ecosystem to collapse.
April 7, 2011, Vientiane Capital Lao PDR
Strengthening Protected Area System of the Komi Republic to Conserve Virgin Forest Biodiversity in the Pechora River Headwaters Region
Male, Maldives, March 13-16, 2011
The Fifth Session of the South West Indian Fisheries Commission (SWIOF) was organized upon invitation of the government of Maldives from the 13 to the 16 of March 2011 in the the Nasandhura Hotel in Male, Maldives. The session was opened and facilitated by the HE Dr. Hussein Rasheed Hassan, Minister of Fisheries who took part in every session and showed a strong commitment on this key issue for all coastal and island countries of the region.
March 23, 2011- On March 22 the BioGuinea Foundation was officially established with the objective of promoting the conservation, protection and improvement of the environment and biodiversity of Guinea Bissau prioritizing the country’s national system of protected areas.
March 14 - The Amazon represents the largest area of tropical rainforest in the world. It provides essential global environmental benefits in terms of preservation of significant levels of unique biological diversity and carbon sequestration through averted deforestation, which results in mitigation of climate change.
