CIF Projects Focus on Climate Resilience and Forests [viewed]
1 July 2011: The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) approved US$444 million in grants and near-zero-interest loans to support five nation-wide strategic programmes for climate resilience in Cambodia, Mozambique, Nepal, St. Lucia, and Zambia, as well as US$90 million in grants for sustainable forest management (SFM) and REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks) initiatives in Burkina Faso and Congo DRC.
30 June 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) participated in the Indonesia workshop of the Green Customs Initiative, a partnership of 11 international organizations working together to strengthen compliance and enforcement of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).
30 June 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has reported on the implementation of a project titled "Rehabilitation and Sustainable Use of Peatland Forests in South-East Asia,” highlighting its benefits, including biodiversity conservation, emissions reductions and increased carbon sinks.
29 June 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) is funding a US$41,321 project for the rehabilitation of degraded forests in the Soche Mountain Forest Reserve in Malawi. 
27 June 2011: The Government of Japan and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a five-year partnership programme to promote the Satoyama Initiative and practices. Through this initiative, rural communities in 11 countries will receive small grants through the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to implement biodiversity-friendly natural resource management and farming systems.
24 June 2011: “Save Our Species (SOS)," a global coalition initiated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank to build a species conservation fund supporting on-the-ground field conservation projects all over the world, has announced the first call for proposals for SOS grants.
25 June 2011: Marking the International Day of the Seafarer, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has noted that ships have the potential to contribute significantly to ocean pollution, through garbage, sewage, ballast water and oil, which increases the importance of seafarers adhering to conventions and protocols established to guide good practice in waste disposal and dealing with crises resulting in oil spills.
18 June 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that it has signed a revised Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the BirdLife International Pacific Partnership for conservation in the Pacific region, which has more threatened bird species per unit of land area than any other region in the world, as well as the most extinctions.
23 June 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) participated in a meeting of the national coordinators of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Mangroves Ecosystem for Climate Change and Livelihoods (MESCAL) project, which followed up on progress of the project and sought to ensure that MESCAL activities fit with the new Regional Wetlands Action Plan for Pacific Islands.
23 June 2011: The World Bank approved a US$10 million loan to strengthen Guyana's science and technology tertiary education and advance its Low Carbon Development Strategy, through funding provided by the International Development Association (IDA).
