Little GEF Nature Financing Reaches Local Communities, Report Says « Carbon Pulse

Funding failures undermine global nature protection efforts

Indigenous fishers in Sabah. Image: Shutterstock New report warns that the world’s biggest environmental fund isn’t reaching the Indigenous communities best placed to safeguard biodiversity By Geographical Staff As world leaders gather in Paris this week for the latest Global Environment Facility (GEF) replenishment meetings, new research reveals that a key international fund designed to protect nature is falling short where it’s needed most: on…

Little GEF nature financing reaches local communities, report says « Carbon Pulse

Too little Global Environment Facility (GEF) funding reached Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs), where it was most needed over 2023-25, and it often failed to align with local priorities, according to a briefing led by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

COMMUNICATE San Raymundo Jalpan, Oax., on May 18, 2025.- Legislator Irma Pineda Santiago presented at the Ordinary Session of April 15, 2025, the constitutional reform initiative, so that indigenous peoples and communities in the same electoral district can elect their deputies, through the own regulatory systems of each community and without the mediation of political parties.