GEF Land Degradation Fact Sheet
The GEF’s program on promoting sustainable land management focuses on integrated approaches to natural resources management, covering all the major rural land use systems: agriculture, rangeland, and forestry.
GEF Gender Fact Sheet
The GEF has a long history of investing in local actions to achieve global environmental objectives. Today, an even deeper understanding exists of the relationships among household welfare, women’s equality, and environmental sustainability.
GEF Persistent Organic Pollutants Fact Sheet
The GEF’s main goal in the POPs focal area is to protect human health and the environment by helping countries to reduce and eliminate production, use, and releases of POPs, and thereby contribute generally to capacity development for the sound management of chemicals.
GEF Technology Transfer Fact Sheet
Transfer of technologies and enabling policy environments or legal and regulatory landscapes, that encourage the adoption of climate-friendly technologies and practices are GEF's main focus.
GEF Ozone Layer Depletion Fact Sheet
Phasing out ozone-depleting substances (ODS) is a highly effective means for achieving immediate, and future, global environmental benefits. Consequently, the GEF allocated more than $183 million to projects to phase out ODS, with an additional $188 million of cofinancing.
GEF-NGO Network Fact Sheet
Established in May 1995 the GEF-NGO Network is made up of GEF-accredited organizations whose work in environment and sustainable development is aligned with the GEF mandate.
Investing in Land Stewardship
GEF's efforts to combat land degradation and desertification globally. GEF's efforts to combat land degradation and desertification globally.
Investing in Sustainable Transport and Urban Systems: The GEF Experience
Investing in sustainable transport reduces carbon dioxide emissions and helps mitigate the potential impacts of climate change. But making these investments also pays off at the local level: we work with stakeholders to expand clean public transportation choices that also have the added benefits of lowering air pollution and reducing traffic congestion. This publication details our efforts in the field toward realizing sustainable urban transport all over the world.
A New Climate for Forests: GEF Action on Sustainable Forest Management
This publication is intended to shed light on GEF experience in Sustainable Forestry Management, perhaps the best-kept secret in the forest financing arena worldwide. It also puts forward guiding ideas on how to build on GEF comparative advantages in financing forests in the coming years, as these invaluable, threatened resources occupy center stage in multiple international agendas.
From Ridge to Reef; Water, Environment and Community Security
From Ridge to Reef; Water, Environment and Community Security: GEF Action on transboundary water resources The world’s oceans, rivers, lakes, and groundwater systems do not respect political borders. These large water systems cover most of our planet, but they continue to be managed in a national and fragmented way that is endangering the food supply and livelihoods of billions of people. In this publication we explore just a handful of the GEF International Waters projects that have enabled countries to work collectively and, in many cases, to establish adaptive management institutions.
