Guardians of the Páramos: Rural Women Lead the Fight to Save the Andes’ Water Temples in Colombia
On the cold, wet and foggy slopes of the Andes mountains in South America, a unique but fragile ecosystem illustrates the interconnection between the three most urgent global environmental crises we face today: biodiversity loss, climate change and land degradation. Known as páramos (alpine tundras), these high mountain ecosystems are found at altitudes higher than 3,000 metres, above the high Andean forest line, but below the permanent snow line. Characterized by cold and humid weather and a typical Andean vegetation of frailejones (‘big m...
 
Model Cooperation: Building Resilience in Small Island Developing States Through South-South Cooperation
While working as the Environmental Health and Safety Manager for a top hotel on the p...
 
Six SGP grantees among Equator Prize 2024 winners
Grantees of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) in Iran, Morocco, Senegal, Colombia, Kenya and Bangladesh are among the prestigious Equator Prize 2024 winners, which the...
Established in 1992, the year of the Rio Earth Summit, the GEF Small Grants Programme embodies the very essence of sustainable development by "thinking globally acting locally". By providing financial and technical support to projects that conserve and restore the environment while enhancing people's well-being and livelihoods, SGP demonstrates that community action can maintain the fine balance between human needs and environmental imperatives.

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Guardians of the Páramos: Rural Women Lead the Fi...
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Model Cooperation: Building Resilience in Small Is...
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Six SGP grantees among Equator Prize 2024 winners...
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Knowledge is power: environmental education for st...
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Resilience Indicators Workshop on Sustainable Land...
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Antigua and Barbuda show the power of SIDS local a...
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THE RESIN8™ REVOLUTION: Private Innovation and L...
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Almonds and Joy: Conservation and Sustainable Use ...
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Our land, our future: a farming community in Burki...
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GEF CEO meets smallholder farmers supported by SGP...