Global Environment Facility (GEF): UPSC Mind Map
Interactive mind map for global environment facility, covering key concepts, relationships, and facts relevant to UPSC Prelims and Mains preparation.
Key Concepts in this Mind Map
- Global Environment Facility (GEF) Challenges
- - Overview
- - Financial mechanism for global environment
- - Supports developing countries in addressing global environmental issues
- - World's largest funder of projects to improve global environment
- - Establishment & History
- - Established 1991 (pilot program)
- - Restructured 1994 (independent entity)
- - Located in Washington D.C.
- - Structure & Governance
- - Assembly: All 186 member countries, meets every 3-4 years
- - Council: Main governing body, 32 members, meets twice annually
- - Secretariat: Implements decisions, located in Washington D.C.
- - Trustee: World Bank (administers GEF Trust Fund)
- - Evaluation Office: Independent evaluation function
- - Focal Areas (6)
- - Biodiversity
- - Climate Change
- - Land Degradation
- - International Waters
- - Chemicals and Waste
- - Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) as a cross-cutting area
- - Conventions Supported
- - Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
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