The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the largest multilateral trust fund focused on enabling developing countries to invest in nature, and supports the implementation of major international environmental conventions including on biodiversity, climate change, chemicals, and desertification. The GEF was established on eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems. Since then, the GEF has provided over $114 billion in grants and mobilized in excess of $70 billion in additional financing for more than 4,000 projects. The GEF has become an international partnership of 184 countries, international institutions, civil society organizations, and private sector to address global environmental issues.
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Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, the Global Environment Facility's CEO and Chairperson, highlights the importance of partnerships in addressing climate and biodiversity challenges. The EBRD and the GEF are promoting global environmental benefits across our regions, with a strong focus on environmental protection, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. #COP16 #EBRDdonors #GEFatCOP16Colombia
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I have just returned from a busy two weeks in Cali and want to share some of my reflections on the UN CBD #COP16Colombia
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Insuring natural assets for the invaluable services they provide to life and livelihoods is one of the most powerful tools we have to build climate resilience of people and economies. Here is an insightful article about the power of natural asset insurance for coastal communities, and a set of investments by the Global Environment Facility to create models and markets for this insurance class. These are supported by the GEF Challenge Programm for Adaptation Innovation, with funds from the GEF-managed Least Developped Counties Fund and the Special Climate Fund. Kudos to partners at Willistowerswatson WTW , Swiss Re , WWF, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Arvanon Community Marine Park in the Solomon Islands, African Development Bank Group, Mesoamerican Reef Fund - MAR Fund, Vatuvara Foundation, and other key partners. #adaptationfinance #climateinsurance #climatefinace Alua Kennedy Laura MacInnis #gef #ldcf #sccf
Chemical pollution poses a significant threat to #biodiversity. 🧪 🌿 During #COP16Colombia, Executive Secretary for The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Rolph Payet and GEF CEO Carlos Manuel Rodriguez toured the Lito SAS industrial waste management facility. Here, advanced techniques are used to safely process hazardous materials, including PCBs. Hear from the CEO on the importance of highlighting the nexus between chemical pollution and biodiversity loss. 🔗 Full story on the visit: https://lnkd.in/eXj58pzK #GEFatCOP16Colombia
Why is this lab inside an industrial waste management plant? And why did I pay it a visit during the UN Biodiversity's COP16 Colombia with Rolph Payet from the Stockholm Convention on Persistent and Organic Pollutants? The scientists working here are making sure that hazardous chemicals are not released to the environment during the recycling and repurposing of electricity generators and other equipment. This is important because pollution of the soil, the water, and the air, particularly by persistent chemicals, is one of the biggest underlying reasons for biodiversity loss. The nexus of connecting implementation of the chemicals conventions, including the Stockholm Convention and Minamata Convention on Mercury, with the #biodiversity convention is key, and drives the GEF’s work across our family of funds. Being here at the Cali COP16 is an important moment to connect the links between waste and chemical pollution with the loss of nature. #GEFatCOP16Colombia | #COP16Colombia | The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gZcvJgFR
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As part of the team that organized the pavilion from the GEF side, I'm very proud I was able to give space to the Conservation Trust Funds from around the world. The work they do is essential for #nature and I hope that this network continues to grow and share ideas on how to best implement the solutions they have as a collective.
#CAFÉatCOP16Colombia Yesterday, we were privileged to have a meeting with the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Environment Facility, Mr Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, at the GEF Partnership Pavilion in Cali. Together with CTF representatives from RedLAC, APNET and CAFÉ, and the team from Enduring Earth and the GEF, we held very important discussions in promotion of innovative financing mechanisms for #biodiversity 🦋 #conservation in our respective regions. Grateful for such wonderful collaborations for sustainable environmental financing🌿 across the globe. #CTFs #COP16Colombia #CAFÉ #PeaceWithNature
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🌿💧 MEx30x30: Un compromiso por la biodiversidad 💧🌿 En el marco de la #COP16, #México 🇲🇽 da un paso firme hacia la conservación de sus áreas naturales con el proyecto MEx30x30, y con ello fortalecer nuestros ecosistemas esenciales: bosques, océanos y humedales, claves para nuestra vida y la de futuras generaciones. 🌍💚 #MEx30x30 #ProtecciónBiodiversidad #COP16Colombia #RedLACCOP16Colombia | Global Environment Facility | SEMARNAT | CONANP -Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas | USAID | Conservation International | Conservación Internacional México | RedLAC https://lnkd.in/eTw_JC57
During #COP16Colombia, the Global Environment Facility and partners convened an event focused on transforming harmful subsidies into positive incentives for #nature, supporting Target 18 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (#KMGBF). The conference gathered experts to examine how misaligned policies affect the sustainability of fisheries, agriculture, and energy, while also exploring the private sector's role in this transformation and the power of nature-positive investments. 📽️ Watch the video for key insights and highlights from the event. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eD4vC4k9 #GEFatCOP16Colombia Carlos Manuel Rodriguez | Patricia Zurita | Barry Gardiner MP | Valerie Hickey | Conservation International | The World Bank | World Economic Forum | UN Biodiversity | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | The ICCF Group | The Nature Conservancy | COP16 Colombia
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For the UN Biodiversity Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (#KMGBF) to succeed, the ultimate goal is to fully – 100 percent – align public and private investments with nature-positive activity. We are currently far from getting there. But change happens step-by-step, and at #COP16Colombia in Cali I have been energized by many practical, purposeful discussions about how transforming harmful subsidies can unlock new incentives that benefit #biodiversity. This was the experience in Costa Rica, where so much changed when farmers began being adequately compensated for keeping forests on their land intact. When these Global Environment Facility-supported Payment for Ecosystem Services were introduced, they changed mindsets and behaviors, resulting in safeguarded key biodiversity corridors and helping to propel reforestation at a national scale. Subsidy reform can seem daunting or even impossible but this is an area with tremendous potential. Being specific about identifying more sustainable ways to fish, farm, and produce energy, and repurposing public support toward these nature-positive practices, in partnership with the private sector and multilateral development banks, can lead us somewhere new. Thank you Max Andonirina Fontaine, Barry Gardiner MP, Astrid Schomaker, A Prasad, Avril Benchimol, Matthew Reddy for an excellent side event on the power of #KMGBF Target 18, building on our full-day conference held in partnership with Colombia's Ministry of Environment, UN Biodiversity's Secretariat, Conservation International, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The ICCF Group, The Nature Conservancy, The World Bank, World Economic Forum and moderated by the inimitable GEF STAP Chair Rosina Bierbaum. #GEFatCOP16Colombia | COP16 Colombia
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🌍 Join us at #COP16Colombia on Thursday 🚨 Exciting Side Event Alert! 🚨 🌿 Discover how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are pioneering nature-positive development SIDS know that we must make #PeaceWithNature. #SIDS are pioneering integrated and inclusive approaches to sustainable development that address the ‘whole-of-island’ and ‘whole of economy’ issues of conserving land, water and ocean resources while building climate resilience, promoting access to sustainable energy, enhancing local capacity, and creating jobs. This event will explore the major pathways needed to enhance nature-positive development. Interested in learning more? Save the date and join us! Event: SIDS: Nature-positive Leaders for the World Date: Thursday, October 31st | 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM local time Location: Mavecure Room, Plaza One | Cali, Colombia 🗓️ RSVP: https://lnkd.in/eXiUP7D2
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Looking forward to joining the discussion and talking about integration approaches and key transformation levers that can support sustainable urban system transformation. Global Environment Facility
🏙📊 As city leaders gather at #COP16Colombia, explore Systems Change Lab's data and insights on cities - and learn more in an expert webinar this #WorldCitiesDay. ⬇️ Transforming cities to be efficient, equitable and zero-waste is crucial to a sustainable future. Although data from #SystemsChangeLab finds that action is lagging and no indicators are currently on track to meet global targets, rapidly urbanizing cities also have a unique opportunity to transform by 2050. On October 31 join #SystemsChangeLab, World Resources Institute, Bezos Earth Fund and NewClimate Institute for a webinar exploring the current state of our cities and the built environment as well as what action is needed during this critical decade and beyond. Hear from: •Rogier van den Berg, Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities (Moderator) • Anacláudia Rossbach rossbach, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Programme • Aloke Barnwal, Thematic Lead, Urban and Infrastructure, Global Environment Facility • Cristina Gamboa, CEO, World Green Building Council • Harini Nagendra, Director, School of Climate Change and Sustainability and Director, Research Centre, Azim Premji University • Gregor Robertson, Global Ambassador, Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) • Maeve Hogel Weston, Research and Engagement Manager, WRO • Emily Daly, NewClimate Institute ➡️ Register for the webinar: https://bit.ly/3NtAx0f 📊 Discover the data and learn more about how cities can reduce emissions and promote equity, public health and resilience: https://bit.ly/4be7UgU 🔗 Want to learn about the Nature Science-Based Targets for Cities Program? Visit: https://lnkd.in/e3ZBYHAb #NaturePositive #ScienceBased #NatureAndClimate #GlobalCommons #Cities #COP16 #SystemsChange