COLOGNE, GERMANY, May 30, 2012 – The total value of the carbon market grew by 11 percent in 2011, to $176 billion, and transaction volumes reached a new high of 10.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) according to a new report from the World Bank.
Bonn, 25 May 2012 – Meeting in Bonn for the first time after the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, governments made progress in ensuring that this year's conference in Doha, at the end of 2012, can take the next essential steps towards meeting the long-term challenge of climate change.
Traditionally, indigenous populations of the Venezuelan Amazon, which were mostly nomadic until a few decades ago, applied ancestral agricultural techniques that helped preserve the forest due to their seasonal rotation.
Today, most of those formerly nomadic communities have settled permanently. They continue to grow their produce in fixed locations resulting in significant land degradation in some areas, and mass shelling of trees in others.
Washington DC, May 22, 2012 - Today, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), together with its 182 member countries, honors the United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, an effort to bring better understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. At a time when global marine environments and fisheries are under increasing threat, the GEF pointed to the importance – and the results – of its support for protecting marine biodiversity.
Washington DC, May 7, 2012 - A project based in Cape Town, South Africa, and co-funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has won an award for excellence at the Excellence in Environmental Engineering (E3) Competition. The Witsand Sustainable Human Settlement Project received E3’s Superior Achievement Award, presented by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers to the best of today’s projects in environmental engineering.
To mark the World Heritage Day, 18th April, and World Earth Day, 22nd April the GEF Small Grants Programme in collaboration with the host institution Center for Environment Education (CEE) implemented a week-long event, extending from the 18th until the 25th April, at Qutub Minar—a UNESCO World Heritage Site in New Delhi.
Washington, May 1, 2012 — The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$ 18 million credit and a US$ 4.4 million Global Environment Facility (GEF) grant for the Moldova Agricultural Competitiveness Project.
As allergy season starts we are all reminded of pollen. However what it is often considered just an annoying side effect of the Spring, it's actually a key factor in both human managed and natural terrestrial ecosystems.
Connect4Climate invites you to a CSO Forum discussion during the annual World Bank Spring Meetings.
Follow the event through the LIVE WEBCAST
Friday, April 20
MC C1-100 | 2:30 - 4:00 PM
On Sunday 8 April 2012, the Government of Mauritania officially launched the Medium-Sized Project "Partnership to Mainstream Marine and Coastal Biodiversity into Oil and Gas Sector Development in Mauritania" (GEF US$ 1 million; co-financing US$ 4.5 million) in the country's capital, Nouakchott.
