CEO Spells Out New Vision for GEF in Five Point Sustainability Compact

WASHINGTON, DC, December 5, 2006. In a major policy speech to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council meeting today, Monique Barbut, GEF CEO and Chairperson, outlined an exciting new vision for GEF, the world’s largest financier of global environmental protection projects. “I want to break apart the complex web of bureaucracy which today defines the GEF and put in place a five-point Sustainability Compact so that the GEF can be counted on as a leading force for sustainable development for all people,” she said.

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"Environment is the main issue of the 21st century"

- GEF CEO and Chairperson

MONTREAL, CANADA, November 30, 2006. Monique Barbut, GEF CEO and Chairperson delivered a hard-hitting speech to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations today. Addressing an influential audience of policymakers, environmentalists, and development practitioners, she noted that protecting the earth's natural resource base requires urgent actions, including embedding environmental issues into economic development, unleashing the power of markets, and igniting the talents of policymakers to become champions of sustainability.

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GEF CEO speaks at High Level Segment of Climate Change Convention Meeting

NAIROBI, KENYA, November 15, 2006. GEF CEO and Chairperson Monique Barbut addressed the Joint High-level Segment of the COP 12 and COP/MOP 2 at the United Nations Climate Change Convention Conference today in Nairobi, Kenya. Ms. Barbut spoke of the challenges in linking adaptation to development and reaffirmed GEF’s commitment to helping vulnerable countries adapt to climate change.

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Climate Change Convention Meeting Opens in Nairobi

NAIROBI, KENYA, November 14, 2006. Up to 7,000 delegates from around the world are in Nairobi, Kenya for the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC). The conference, which runs from November 6 to 17, 2006, is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa and is being held in conjunction with the second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

GEF Participation at the COP

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