Global Environment Facility (GEF)
| Release date | 17/12/2008 |
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| Contributor | ysamyn |
| URL | http://www.gefweb.org |
As the financial mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) helps developing countries and countries with economies in transition to achieve the objectives of the CBD and generate global environmental benefits in the area of biodiversity. Biodiversity projects constitute the largest percentage of GEF’s portfolio, making up 36 percent of total GEF grants.
