Caught on the wrong chair

The GEF's warped priorities

DTE Coverage: GEF meet allocates funds for biodiversity

Funding mechanism to be ratified in August

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POPs talk

A meeting to eliminate persistent organic pollutants throws up more questions than answers

Sands of controversy

Africa had several tense moments before it could get the desertification convention through

Nurturing a delta

The World Bank has funded a project to stop the environmental degradation of the Danube delta

Waste into energy

GEF A tale of beggars and frauds

Amazon project: fight over funds, sovereignty and forests

Saving Everest's ecology

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Conservation grant

Turning on the heat

The international community is being exhorted to enforce a greenhouse regime

Felicitation for pioneers of clean environment

Awards announced for global environment leadership 2000

G-7 links aid with environment

The World's richest nations reiterate environment is high on their policy agenda

Where have all the people gone?

The ministry of environment and forests' plan to conserve biodiversity excludes the people.

Caught in legal limbo

A tussle over funding clouds issues of climate change a biodiversity.

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How the South lost its morality in Beijing

Sunpower is for free

A new plan to popularise solar photovoltaic products has recently been launched in India

Brazil GEF meet: Agreement on new biodiversity conservation fund; to be ratified in August

Indigenous peoples and local communities to get 20 per cent of the funds

Self-withering: Biodiversity Convention’s new global framework raises basic questions

Fairness and North-South balance embedded in the treaty made the West uncomfortable with it

7th GEF Assembly: Global Biodiversity Framework Fund ratified

First projects under the new Fund likely to roll out ahead of CBD’s CoP16 

7th GEF Assembly: Decision on direct funding to civil societies likely during the meeting

More funds would be needed to make this possible without alienating governments