Global Environment Facility
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the world’s largest multilateral fund for the environment. Its family of funds work together to address the planet's most pressing challenges in an integrated way. Its financing helps developing countries address complex challenges and work towards meeting international environmental goals. Over the past three decades, the GEF has provided more than $27 billion in financing, primarily as grants, and mobilized another $155 billion for country-driven priority projects.www.thegef.org
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Sep 25, 2026
Erin SikorskyGUEST
He co-hosted that with the government of Kenya and the European Commission.
Erin SikorskyGUEST
And the UK government made new commitments to the GEF, the Global Environmental Facility, and a few other things, and really drove a conversation forward there and released a statement with many different points after that meeting.
Erin SikorskyGUEST
So I think that was a good example of actually operationalizing the words around climate security with good leadership from the UK government.
Erin SikorskyGUEST
Um, I think also yesterday's meeting on global sea level rise and the, um, statement that came out of that meeting that was not torpedoed by the United States, uh, fortunately, I think was also good.
Lily RichardsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What's cool about this bond is that at the end of the five years, the, you get your principal back, um, as paid by the World Bank.
Lily RichardsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But there's this cool entity called the Global Environmental Facility, which I like to call GEF for short because it's easier.
Lily RichardsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, and GEF pays a success fee on top of that, and that success fee is hinged to the rhino population at the time of the five years.
Jeffrey HalleyCORRESPONDENT
And Lily Richards says that Pathfinder has invested about three point four million dollars in the Rhino Fund, and this, Jeff, has been charged by a rhino.
Lily RichardsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What's cool about this bond is that at the end of the five years, you get your principal back as paid by the World Bank.
Lily RichardsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But there's this cool entity called the Global Environmental Facility, which I like to call GEF for short because it's easier.
Lily RichardsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And GEF pays a success fee on top of that.
Lily RichardsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that success fee is hinged to the rhino population at the time of the five years.
speaker_0HOST
Then one day, the green begins to answer back.
speaker_0HOST
A broad review highlighted by the Global Environment Facility examined more than 650 published cases of conservation action.
speaker_0HOST
It found that conservation efforts were effective more often than not, although protection and restoration are not guaranteed.
speaker_0HOST
The useful message is neither catastrophe nor miracle.
Gerrit HeldGUEST
So we try to play this, plus ADB tries to bring grant funding maybe to the table to help de-risk some parts.
Gerrit HeldGUEST
of the, let's say, nurseries, the nursery and seedling installations, because we work very closely with the Global Environmental Facility or the Green Climate Fund, so we're very good in mobilizing money, mobilizing capital from these taxpayer-paid climate funds.
Gerrit HeldGUEST
And the
Murray CollinsHOST
next step is to crowd in the private capital, right?
Keisha BlidenHOST
On September 15, 2026, Dominica hosted an inception meeting organizing for the climate change resilience in the Caribbean fisheries sector project.
Keisha BlidenHOST
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, and other regional and national partners are implementing the initiative with 12.55 million U.S. dollars from the Global Environmental Facility.
Keisha BlidenHOST
The initiative will strengthen boats, landing sites, processing facilities and markets to withstand climate impacts, restore and monitor vital ecosystems like coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, improve fishery policies, disaster planning, insurance access and financial services, and share knowledge and successful practices through a regional community of practice.
Keisha BlidenHOST
Now news on a new Caribbean regional initiative from the United Nations Office for Project Services.
Robbie BoydGUEST
It's changing the world, mate.
Robbie BoydGUEST
And it's really nice, you know, having been one of the architects of the GEF, you'll remember, I thought I'd achieve something by building an alliance without a treaty, which was the secret of it, really.
Robbie BoydGUEST
So we got maximum flexibility.
Robbie BoydGUEST
Very Klaus Witzian, the GEF.
Robbie BoydGUEST
I go back to my point, you know, it's a labour of love to have started a global institution that's trying to do the right thing.
Robbie BoydGUEST
It doesn't half help you sleep at night.