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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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.
"I've urged the World Bank president that the global infrastructure facility should be set up as early as possible because countries like India require a large amount of finances for infrastructure, " Mr. Chidambaram said in an interview on the sidelines of meetings of the Group of 20 leading economies, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
As part of our normal operations it is necessary to bring a few employees from those global sites to work temporarily at NCR's new product introduction manufacturing facility in Dundee on the products they will be transitioning to their location and to other global sites.
Additionally, Honeywell said this particular India facility will also develop low-global-warming refrigerants, blowing agents and other materials.
For one, in a predatory global market, we would be eliminating a facility that constitutes a vital source of financing for the commercial industrial base for foreign sales.
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Motorola Mobility hardware unit has indefinitely suspended operations at its phone-manufacturing facility in India and cut 76 jobs there as part of its global cost-reduction program.
The company has expertise in the production and management of documents: color and black-and-white, digital and paper, across networks or on a desktop, in a commercial print facility or a quick-print shop, for the small office or the global enterprise.
On Monday, the global equity markets reacted positively to the European Commission saying it is discussing plans to extend the European Financial Stability Facility.
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