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17 April 2026

At the Global Forum for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Integrated Programs in Nairobi, the GEF highlighted how the Greening Transportation Infrastructure Development program (GRID) efforts are integrating nature into transport planning and development.

2 April 2026

While transportation infrastructure is essential, environmental protections must be integrated early in the planning process so infrastructure can support resilient communities and ecosystems. The Greening Transportation Infrastructure Development (GRID) program is advancing nature-friendly approaches to transportation infrastructure.

4 December 2024

The Global Environment Facility has selected seven projects as winners of its first Innovation Window, which will provide $12.3 million in grants to initiatives that test and pilot new solutions to stubborn challenges, from improving food systems to protecting wild cat habitats.

4 December 2024

The Freshwater Challenge celebrated two major milestones at the One Water Summit in Saudi Arabia, securing catalytic funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and reaching 50 members after Kazakhstan and Australia officially joined the world’s largest ever freshwater restoration and protection initiative.

23 October 2024

Financing from the GEF’s Least Developed Countries Fund and Special Climate Change Fund has helped foster the development of an innovative and much-needed financial tool: insurance designed to make biodiversity, and the people who depend on it, more resilient to the effects of climate change.

8 January 2024

Bob Taylor is the founder of Taylor Guitars, one of the largest manufacturers of acoustic guitars in the United States. In an interview, he shared the reasons his company is working with the Global Environment Facility through The Ebony Project to invest in the socially responsible and environmentally sustainable model of sourcing Central African ebony trees.

5 December 2023

Ministry of Forests and Environment together with GEF and WWF organized a side event on Reporting Nepal’s Mitigation Efforts: Road to Net-Zero Emission at Nepal pavilion, UAE. In the event, Hon. Dr. Birendra Prasad Mahato, Minister, Ministry of Forests and Environment shared the Nepal’s statement on Nepal’s mitigation effort and report communication internationally.

25 October 2023

The University of Queensland has launched an online edX course ‘Coral Reefs: Introduction of Challenges and Solutions’ designed in partnership with the Coral Reef Rescue Initiative, and WWF Australia, and funded by the Global Environment Facility.

6 June 2023

Message from an Indigenous Fisher in Indonesia

10 August 2021

Those who live on the islands and atolls of the southwestern Pacific Ocean are exposed to rising seas and severe storms like almost no one else on Earth, and yet only a fraction are insured against the growing threat of climate change-related ecosystem, human, and economic losses.

29 June 2021

Nepal’s steep topography and melting glaciers makes it vulnerable to many climate change-induced hazards, including floods, landslides, and debris flows, with impacts seen in mountains, hills, and valleys alike. These fragile and beautiful ecosystems are also now facing new pressures from large numbers of people returning to the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

10 June 2021

Zurich, Switzerland – WWF and South Pole today launched the Landscape Resilience Fund (LRF) to tackle the impact of climate change head-on. With the support of the Global Environment Facility and the commitment of Chanel as anchor investor, the fund is ready to rally more institutions to invest in a resilient future.

22 February 2021

The Coastal Fisheries Initiative (CFI) convenes this week for a brainstorming session aimed at accelerating environmental, social, and economic sustainability in coastal fisheries as communities around the globe strive to face-off the strains of the COVID-19 pandemic.

17 January 2020

Kathmandu, Nepal – The Ministry of Forests and Environment launched the Integrated Landscape Management to Secure Nepal’s Protected Areas and Critical Corridors (ILaM) at an event in Kathmandu today. The USD 6.6 million (NRS. 726 million) project will be implemented in the Terai Arc Landscape for a period of five years.

10 December 2019

In collaboration with partners South Pole and Willis Towers Watson, The World Wildlife Fund has won two projects in the GEF Challenge Program for Adaptation Innovation.

09 May 2019

The WWF GEF Agency is overseeing the execution of a $2 Million GEF grant to the Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) of the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDNF).

13 June 2018

The Sixth GEF Assembly and Associated Meetings took place at the Furama International Conference Center in Da Nang, Viet Nam, from June 23-29, 2018.

28 November 2017

See the World Bank feature story “Act now to save wildlife: 5 actions that make a difference.” The Global Wildlife Program is led by the World Bank and funded by the GEF. Collaborative partners include the International Consortium to Combat Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) including the CITES Secretariat, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Traffic, WildAid, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and WWF.

Kathmandu, Nepal – ‘Sustainable Land Management in the Churia Range, Nepal’, a three-year medium-sized project of the Government of Nepal and WWF and supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was successfully concluded on 31 May 2017. It effectively helped reduce the vulnerability of 6,000 local people, including more than 2,300 women, from land degradation and soil erosion issues in the Himalayan foothills.