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Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Name:	Global Environment Facility
Abbreviation:	GEF
URL to homepage:	http://www.gefweb.org/
Country:	United States of America

Mandate

To provide a mechanism for international cooperation for the purpose of providing new, and additional, grant and concessional funding to meet the agreed incremental costs of measures to achieve agreed global environmental benefits in the areas of biological diversity, climate change, international waters, and ozone layer depletion.

Key words with relevancy to forests

biological diversity, climate change, desertification, financing, funding, land use