It was funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented through the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO and UNDP.
The project was approved by the Global Environment Facility last week at a conference for the Review of the Implementation of the U.N.
The African Development Bank has also become an implementing partner for the Adaptation Fund, and has considerably expanded work under the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Waters (IW) focal area targets transboundary water systems, such as shared river basins, lakes, groundwater and large marine ecosystems.
Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Zones of West Africa (ACCC) is a project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by UNESCO and UNDP.
To assist eligible countries in translating the Aichi Targets into NBSAPs before COP11, Japan has established a Japan Biodiversity Fund, while additional funds have been made available through the Global Environment Facility.
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React to outside power grid risks and demand response requests: To reduce risk of application outages, data centers must be able to closely monitor the facility and surrounding environment as well as their IT equipment.
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The CBD Secretariat and the Global Environment Facility are working to ensure that the first meeting of the governing body of this historic instrument will take place in India in October 2012 back-to-back with CBD COP11.
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From 1998 to 2001, funds from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) were used to allot grants to villagers for ecological forest management and to compensate them for the loss of the right to exploit the forest.
The UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) together with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has initiated a new Project on "Groundwater Governance" financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
In January 2010, to launch the IYB, UNESCO organized a high-level event in Paris, launched the official IYB travelling exhibit with a wide range of partners in particular the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Environment Facility, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Airbus.
Over three-years, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) and the World Bank are working closely with Member States to, though their best practices, jointly understand the complex nexus between science and governance in the management of groundwater resources.
The facility could become a working environment for more than 4000 researchers.
Developer FCC Environment proposed building a facility to turn vegetation into electricity on land at Sutton Courtenay landfill site.
After that's all set, the device leaves the clean-room environment and moves on to the general facility.
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The Environment Agency said the questions concerned the facility's air filtration system.
It said the new facility would provide a fit-for-purpose working environment for its staff.
Proposals to build the UK's largest underground gas storage facility in Lancashire would be "destructive" to the environment, campaigners have said.
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As you might expect in such a harsh environment, there is limited population to work in its proposed facility.
Buckinghamshire County Council awarded FCC Environment the job of building and operating the energy-from-waste facility at Calvert last July.
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