To celebrate this year’s International Biodiversity Day and its theme ‘Solutions are in Nature’, we are featuring nature-based solutions that have been shared among communities through South-South cooperation (SSC) and supported by the Small Grants Programme. These shared solutions ...read more

At EXPO Shanghai 2010, the Prize will award a not-for-profit project by a citizen or a group that contributes to the global effort to ameliorate the quality of life in cities, or which demonstrates a strong potential to do so. The BIE-Cosmos Prize refers to a series of prizes, born of a ...read more

The GEF Small Program (SGP) in Cuba signed cooperation Agreement with the Latin World Film Studies Program to promote knowledge as a key tool for environmental education and protection. The main objective of the agreement is to exchange information about environmental projects, between the Small ...read more

An SGP Project in Cuba called "Alternative Use of Natural Resources in the Coastal Community of Carahatas" was featured in TierraAmerica. The project proposes, the cultivation of sea sponges as an employment option for fisherfolk committed to abandoning trawler fishing. This is a copy of the ...read more

Bhutan:On 5th June, speeches of UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, and Lyonpo Nado Rinchen, Deputy Minister of National Environment Commission were read out in the assembly. In the evening there was a quiz competition organized by the National Environment Commission at Khuruthang Middle Secondary ...read more

La biodiversidad es el conjunto de todas las especies de plantas y animales, su material genético y los ecosistemas de los cuáles son parte. Durante milenios las formas vivas se hantransformado en una relación estrecha con el ambiente, dando como resultado la biosfera ...read more

Since its inception in late 2004, the Small Grants Programme in Cuba has funded nine projects within climate change, biodiversity and land degradation. The projects currently under execution are located in the provinces of Guantánamo, Granma, Las Tunas and Cienfuegos. This newsletter (only ...read more

Maisí, Guantánamo. - (NOTICIAS de las Naciones Unidas) - Rehabilitar una minihidroeléctrica aquí, en "Los Gallegos" – comunidad de montaña en Maisí, Guantánamo, en el extremo más oriental de Cuba--, rescatar la cría de la cabra criolla en Jiguaní e instalar cocinas eficientes ...read more