Global Environment Facility (GEF): Overview

Fletcher, Susan R.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Environmental policy;    Air pollution;    Air pollution control;   

RP-ID  :  RS21858
RP-ID  :  RS21858_2006Oct19

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses the Global Environment Facility (GEF), serves as a primary source of funding for several major international environmental concerns. It was designed to provide incremental additional funding for development projects, in order to allow incorporation of environmental considerations in four specified areas: climate change, ozone depletion, biological diversity, and international waters. In recent years, land degradation and persistent organic pollutants have been added to its agenda. The GEF has provided funding to more than 1,300 projects in 140 nations. Although the United States has participated in the GEF since its inception, its level of contributions to the GEF has varied widely, from $30 million in 1994 to a high of $167million in 1999, and to $80 million in 2006.