IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) Coverage
IISD RS has provided daily web coverage (including photos and videos from selected side events) and daily reports of the 46th meeting of the GEF Council. In addition, IISD RS has produced 750-word web summary of the CSOs Forum as well as daily web coverage and daily reports of the 5th GEF Assembly. To download our reports, click the HTML or PDF icons below.


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25 May 2014
26 May 2014
27 May 2014


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28 May 2014
29 May 2014
Summary


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2 June 2014


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2 June 2014

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Forty-sixth meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Forum, 16th meeting of the Least Developed Countries Fund and the Special Climate Change Fund (LDCF/SCCF) Council, and 5th GEF Assembly

25-30 May 2014 | Cancún, Mexico

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Highlights for Sunday, 25 May 2014

View of the Moon Palace Arena, venue of the GEF Council meeting

On Sunday morning, participants convened in plenary for the opening of the 46th meeting of the GEF Council. They considered annual monitoring and review, long term strategy for the GEF and summary of the negotiations of the Sixth Replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund. In the afternoon participants addressed the proposal for the system of transparent allocation of resources (STAR) for GEF-6, co-financing policy, annual performance report 2013 main findings and recommendations and management response and annual country portfolio evaluation report 2014 and management response.

L-R: Elected Co-Chair Juha Pyykkö, Finland; Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO and Chairperson; and William Ehlers, GEF Secretariat

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the IUCN-International Union for Conservation of Nature, joined the GEF as new accredited project agencies. Left, Mohale Rakgate, DBSA, and Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO and Chairperson. Right, Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director-General, IUCN, who addressed the council via a video message.

The dais during the morning session

Josceline Wheatley, United Kingdom

Jozef Buys, Belgium

Frank Fass-Metz, Germany

Anne Meldgaard, Denkmark

Aize Azqueta-Quemada, Spain

Jorge Alberto Muhlia Almazan, Mexico

The Council gets down to work

Ximena George-Nascimento, Chile

Stefan Marco Schwager, Switzerland

Faizal Parish, GEF NGO Network Central Focal Point

Nuritdin Inamov, Russian Federation

Lars Roth, Sweden

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, US

Winston Thompson, Fiji

María Leichner Kindsvater, Regional Focal Point for the South American Region and GEF-NGO Network/Fundación ECOS, Uruguay

L-R: Ramesh Ramankutty, Neeraj Kumar Negi, and Robert van den Berg, GEF Secretariat, during the session on “Annual Performance Report 2013 Main Findings and Recommendations and Management Response”