Projects

  • The Freshwater Challenge: Accelerating Restoration and Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems

    This projects aims to Support country-led target setting and prioritization of specific places in policies and plans, learning, and communications that strengthen country-level freshwater ecosystem restoration and conservation interventions and accelerate progress of the Freshwater Challenge.

    freshwater from above
  • Crime Convergence:  Natural Resource Exploitation and Transnational Organized Crime

    Illegal exploitation of natural resources and wildlife including wildlife trafficking, and crimes associated with logging, mining, fishing, land conversion, and others are all crimes that threaten ecosystems, contribute to climate change, worsen food and economic security, and undermine global efforts to promote sustainability and conservation. Together, the illegal trade or trafficking in natural resources, is the third-largest criminal sector worldwide, generating between USD 110 to 280 billion annually. Despite their staggering scale and impact, these crimes are often mischaracterized as primarily conservation issues, when in reality, they are deeply connected to the world of transnational organized criminal networks.

  • Blue Horizon: Ocean Relief through Seaweed Aquaculture

    Creating sustainable seaweed value chains that will deliver ecosystem services and provide socioeconomic benefits.

    Two seaweed farmers in boat in Saborna, Sabah, Malaysia
  • Circular Solutions to Plastic Pollution: Global Project

    The program will be delivered through a global platform project and a suite of 15 national projects that will integrate sectors, themes, and drivers, and engage governments, civil society organizations, and the private sector

    Bags of plastic bottles at a recycling station
  • Greening Transportation Infrastructure Development: Global Platform

    The GEF-8 Greening Transportation Infrastructure Development (GRID) Integrated Program (IP) objective is to advance the transition toward sustainable transportation infrastructure that safeguards and enhances key coastal, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems.

    Aerial view of a bridge filled with vegetation over a multi-lane highway