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| Â | Global Environment Facility |
 | | © 2004 Global Environment Facility, All rights reserved. |  | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established in 1991, helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. |  | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has provided more than $970 million in grants to protect wilderness areas around the world. |
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http://www.gefweb.org
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| Â | Global Village of Beijing |
 | | It has received grants from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), World Wide Funds for Nature (WWF), the Ford Foundation, the Japanese Fund for Global Environment and the US Environment Protection Agency (USEPA). |  | | Global Village of Beijing (GVB) is a non-governmental and non-profit organization in China organized in Match 3, 1996 with six staff. |  | | On his trip to Guilin, China, President Clinton also praised the multiple efforts conducted by GVB to preserve the environment: "Thanks for your good work for our common home!" GVB survives on the contributions from those whore are concern with China's environmental protection. |
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http://www.zhb.gov.cn/english/NGO/GVB.htm
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| Â | Polestar International Technology Transfer Group - China Activities |
 | | The island nation is part of a UK financial and legal system and is well equipped with communication, computer systems, accounting, and tax advantaged business environment. |  | | Technology transfers are usually achieved through the sale of a turn key production facility, training and education of employees, and the rights to use proprietary technology. |  | | The advantage to you is that TTG can do the legwork necessary to provide an opinion on how marketable your technology is before you invest your money and your management resources in working through the complicated and time consuming maze of foreign markets. |
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http://www.polestarltd.com/ttg/china.html
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| Â | 5th Special Session - Convention of the Prior Informed consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - United Nations Environment Programme |
 | | Further welcomes the successful conclusion of the negotiation of the second replenishment of the Global Environment Facility and notes the policy recommendations on actions to be undertaken by the Global Environment Facility to maximize its effectiveness and impacts, while respecting the prerogatives of the governing bodies of the implementing agencies |  | | Also invites the Global Environment Facility to support the Executive DirectorÂ’s efforts aimed at strengthening the role of the United Nations Environment Programme in the Global Environment Facility in accordance with the terms of reference of the Facility. |  | | Agrees to accept changes in the voluntary prior informed consent procedure, it so decided by the conference of plenipotentiaries, provided that costs additional to the implementation of the present voluntary procedure be met through extrabudgetary resources. |
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http://www.unep.org/Documents?DocumentID=74&ArticleID=1053
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| Â | Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured GEF |
 | | Restructuring and First Replenishment of the Global Environment Facility," Resolution No. 94-2 adopted by the World Bank Executive Directors |  | | "Adoption of the Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility," Decision Adopted by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its fourth Special Session |  | | Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility |
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http://www.gefweb.org/public/instrume/instrume.htm
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| Â | Global Environment Facility |
 | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established in 1991, helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. |  | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has provided more than $970 million in grants to protect wilderness areas around the world. |  | | This report explains how the GEF family is committed to helping reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by mobilizing international cooperation to protect the global environment in ways that promote sustainable development and create opportunities for the world’s poor. |
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http://www.gefweb.org
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| Â | Biodiversity & Bioassessment |
 | | Mongolian Ministry for Nature and the Environment, United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility, and World Wide Fund for Nature. |  | | --Biological diversity in Mongolia: First national report: Global environment facility. |  | | This is a status report on the Mongolian governmentís efforts at achieving sustainable development in Mongolia, as defined by the objectives of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in ìAgenda 21.î Includes detailed policy goals and objectives,Ý and statistics on poverty and the environment. |
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http://www.acnatsci.org/~gelhaus/chapters/biodiversity.htm
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| Â | Global Environment Facility |
 | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established in 1991, helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. |  | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has provided more than $970 million in grants to protect wilderness areas around the world. |  | | The new resource allocation framework (RAF) will explicitly link the award of GEF resources to a country’s potential to generate global environmental benefits as well as its performance, including transparency and good governance. |
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http://www.gefweb.org
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| Â | About UNEP: The Organization - The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) - United Nations Environment Programme |
 | | STAP is an advisory body to the Global Environment Facility (GEF). |  | | GEF promotes international cooperation and fosters actions to protect the global environment and provides funding to developing countries and those with economies in transition for projects and activities targeting global benefits in one or more of four focal areas: biological diversity, climate change, international waters and the ozone layer. |  | | UNEP provides the STAP Secretariat and performs liaison functions between the Facility and STAP. |
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http://www.unep.org/Documents?DocumentID=43&ArticleID=203
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| Â | About GEF |
 | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established to forge international cooperation and finance actions to address four critical threats to the global environment: biodiversity loss, climate change, degradation of international waters, and ozone depletion, which in GEF terminology are known as focal areas. |  | | GEF brings together 166 member governments, leading development institutions, the scientific community, and a wide spectrum of private sector and non-governmental organizations on behalf of a common global environmental agenda. |  | | Launched in 1991 as an experimental facility, GEF was restructured after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to serve the environmental interests of people in all parts of the world. |
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http://gef.un.minsk.by/about.html
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| Â | UNDP/GEF |
 | | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the development arm of the United Nations, was designated by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as one of its three Implementing Agencies. |  | | Partners for Change: Experiences from UNDP's Work with Civil Society Organizations through the Global Environment Facility (May 2005) English, Español, Français. |  | | The GEF is a financial mechanism structured as a trust fund that operates in collaboration and partnership with the three implementing agencies (UNDP, UNEP, and the World Bank) for the purpose of achieving global environmental benefits. |
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http://www.undp.org/gef
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| Â | Dr Robert T. Watson |
 | | Dr Watson has played a key role in the negotiation of global environment conventions and the evolution of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). |  | | Dr Watson has testified in the US Congress on numerous occasions regarding global environmental issues. |  | | Dr Robert T. Watson is Director for Environment and Head of the Environment Sector Board at the World Bank. |
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http://www.world-nuclear.org/sym/1998/watsobio.htm
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| Â | Global Environment Facility |
 | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established in 1991, helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. |  | | This report explains how the GEF family is committed to helping reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by mobilizing international cooperation to protect the global environment in ways that promote sustainable development and create opportunities for the world’s poor. |  | | The GEF and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are launching a multi-million dollar initiative to help some of the world's poorest people better cope with droughts and pest infestations. |
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http://www.gefweb.org
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| Â | GEF in Belarus |
 | | The Global Environment Facility is an instrument which makes conservation of the world's environment a reality. |  | | Conservation of the global environment is a challenge of all people in all countries of the world. |  | | Today the wold faces an unprecedented level of changes in the global environment. |
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http://gef.un.minsk.by/index.html
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| Â | Home :: Partners :: GEF |
 | | The Global Environment Facility was established to forge international cooperation and finance actions to address four critical threats to the global environment: biodiversity loss, climate change, degradation of international waters, and ozone depletion. |  | | GEF brings together 166 member governments, leading development institutions, the scientific community, and a wide spectrum of private sector and non-governmental organizations on behalf of a common global environmental agenda. |  | | The GEF's objective in the international waters focal area is to contribute primarily as a catalyst to the implementation of a more comprehensive, ecosystem-based approach in managing international waters and their drainage basins as a means to achieve global environmental benefits. |
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http://www.iwlearn.net/part/gef.php
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| Â | PRESS CONFERENCE ON LAUNCH OF MILLENNIUM ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT |
 | | Lash, responding to another question, gave a breakdown of the funding which had thus far been provided for the project, which totalled some $17 million. The major contributor was the Global Environment Facility with a contribution of $7 million, and the United Nations Foundation would provide $4 million. |  | | Wirth said the result of the Assessment would be the first global report card on the environment. The Assessment was important because humans were living off their “ecological capital”, and if it continued, “we will soon discover that this is a bankrupt way to operate in the world”. |  | | Adnan Amin, Director of the New York office of UNEP, called the Assessment an “unprecedented scientific effort to map the health of the global ecosystems and to propose measures to address this in the future.” Today’s panel, he noted, reflected the partnership approach to the Assessment, which underlay its rationale. |
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http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2001/ecosystemconference.doc.htm
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| Â | News - Robert T. Watson |
 | | Watson has played a key role in the negotiation of global environment conventions and the evolution of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). |  | | Robert T. Watson, a U.S. citizen born in the U.K., is the World Bank's senior spokesperson on global warming and climate change. |  | | He joined the Bank in May 1996 as senior scientific advisor in the environment department and in July 1997 was appointed director of the same department and head of the environment sector board. |
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http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20025869~menuPK:34490~pagePK:36880~piPK:36882,00.html
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| Â | UNDP/GEF |
 | | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the development arm of the United Nations, was designated by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as one of its three Implementing Agencies. |  | | Partners for Change: Experiences from UNDP's Work with Civil Society Organizations through the Global Environment Facility (May 2005) English, Español, Français. |  | | The GEF is a financial mechanism structured as a trust fund that operates in collaboration and partnership with the three implementing agencies (UNDP, UNEP, and the World Bank) for the purpose of achieving global environmental benefits. |
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http://www.undp.org/gef
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| Â | UN Chronicle World Wildlife Fund Partnership to Save Tropical Forests in the Amazon River Basin |
 | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF), working with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank, who manage and implement its projects, is an active member of this project. |  | | A new partnership between the World Wildlife Fund, the Government of Brazil, the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and other partners has been formed to preserve 193,000 square miles of Amazonian forest in parks and reserves. |  | | According to Guillermo Castilleja, Vice President of the World Wildlife Fund's Latin American programmes, two fifths of the world's original rain forests have already been lost, along with countless species of wildlife "World Wildlife Fund is determined to counter that tide of destruction and preserve the immense natural wealth that tropical forests provide", he said. |
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http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/webArticles/012203_amazon_river_basin.html
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| Â | Global Environment Facility |
 | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established in 1991, helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. |  | | This report explains how the GEF family is committed to helping reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by mobilizing international cooperation to protect the global environment in ways that promote sustainable development and create opportunities for the world’s poor. |  | | Sustainable land management is the theme of several new publications issued by the GEF in honor of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification (2006). |
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http://www.gefweb.org
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| Â | Global Environment Facility - Bulgaria |
 | | 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 and 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. |
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http://www.moew.government.bg/gef
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| Â | World Environment Day 2003 |
 | | IFADs relationships with both the Global Mechanism and the Global Environment Facility enables it to assist countries affected by land degradation in meeting their obligations under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. |  | | IFAD works with impoverished communities in some of the most remote and harsh environments in the world, linking global environmental initiatives to sustainable water and land management and poverty eradication. |  | | World Environment Day, celebrated every year on June 5, reminds us to care for the Earths resources now to ensure the future wellbeing of the planet and future generations. |
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http://www.ifad.org/media/events/2003/enivronment.htm
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| Â | SGP India Home Page |
 | | Small Grants Programme (SGP), funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), seeks to support initiatives, which demonstrate community-based innovative, gender sensitive approaches and lessons learned from other development projects that lead to reduce threats to the local and global environment. |  | | The GEF/SGP was launched in 1991 by United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) to assist developing countries in fulfilling their commitment towards the protection of the global environment. |  | | CEE is currrently implementing 138 different projects with an emphasis on establishing low cost, low external input and easy to manage technologies and social mechanisms. |
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http://www.sgpindia.org
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| Â | About World Resources Institute (WRI) |
 | | WRI feasibility study lays foundation for creation of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). |  | | To address these issues, WRI's founders saw the need for an institution that would be independent and broadly credible, not as an activist environmental membership organization, and that would carry out policy research and analysis on global environmental and resource issues and their relationship to population and development goals. |  | | WRI merges with the Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB). |
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http://about.wri.org
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| Â | CSR Global mean sea level results -- Related links |
 | | EGCH (Environment and Global Change Research) at the National Science Foundation. |  | | Global Sea Level Change: Determination and Interpretation is an Reviews of Geophysics article by Bruce Douglas submitted as part of the United States National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 1991-1994. |  | | PSMSL (Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level) has been responsible for the collection, publication, analysis and interpretation of sea level data from a global network of tide gauges since 1933. |
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http://www.csr.utexas.edu:8912/gmsl/links.html
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| Â | Global Environment Facility |
 | | The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established in 1991, helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. |  | | Released to coincide with the 13th Session of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development in New York in April, 2005, the Global Action on Water series highlights several river and marine ecosystems, while reviewing GEF's contribution to such international waters issues as transboundary resource management, water scarcity, conflict resolution, and pollution reduction. |  | | Global Action on Persistent Organic Pollutants Fact Sheets |
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http://www.gefweb.org
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| Â | UNCTAD: Time to Lead, Time to Challenge the WTO |
 | | UNCTAD should become, as Secretary General Ricupero put it recently in Berlin, a "world parliament on globalization."(16) But this should be a parliament with teeth, with actual legislative power and executive power in the nexus of trade, finance, development, and environment. |  | | UNCTAD should instead be putting forward an arrangement where trade, development, and environment issues must formulated and interpreted by a wider body of global organizations, including UNCTAD, ILO, the implementing bodies of multilateral environmental agreements, and regional economic blocs, interacting as equals to clarify, define, and implement international economic policies. |  | | A vigorous UNCTAD that competes in the process of defining global rules for trade, finance, investment, and sustainable development is essential in a pluralistic global economic regime where global institutions, organizations, and agreements complement as well as check one another. |
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http://www.focusweb.org/publications/2000/UNCTAD.htm
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| Â | Definition of Facility |
 | | 25:...ng Nature for Capital with the Global Environment Facility] |  | | To serve as a key facility for operational test, integration, and certificat... |  | | The facility grounds comprised approximately 20 square kilomet... |
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http://www.wordiq.com/search/Facility.html
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| Â | SPREP -South Pacific Regional Environment Programme |
 | | The project is managed by the Solomon Island’s Government in partnership with the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Global Environment Facility. |  | | The former South Pacific Regional Environment Programme will now be called the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, while its secretariat will become the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme. |  | | The Melanesian Marine Turtles Conservation Forum is being backed by Canada through the C-SPOD Regional Marine Turtle Conservation Network, the Hawaii based Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council of the United States, the World Wildlife Fund of the Pacific and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. |
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http://www.sprep.org.ws/
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