The Global Environment
Facility (GEF)
The Global Environment Facility
(GEF) is a financial mechanism, established by the international community to
promote global sustainability by integrating local, national and regional
economic development with protection of the planet's environment.
The
GEF provides incremental cost financing to developing countries & those
with economies in transition to protect and manage the global
environment.
Its activities are focused in four focal area: biological
diversity, climate change, international waters and depletion of the ozone
layer. Activities addressing land degradation - especially, desertification and
deforestation - are also funded when they relate to one or more of the local
areas.
Three Implementing Agencies -
the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the
World Bank - work with
project proposers to prepare the projects and activities that receive GEF
financing. All project proposals must be submitted to the GEF through the
Implementing Agencies.
Lebanon has been one
of the early signatory parties to the relevant Conventions of Biological
Diversity and Climate Change. This reflects an eminent interest of the
Government of Lebanon which is placing environmental concerns at the attention
of national agenda.
Several conservation projects have already been
initiated in Lebanon. The consolidation of the GEF programme in Lebanon and the
results achieved so far have been through the support of the GEF core unit and
the GEF programme at the Regional Bureau for Arab States.
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