Monday, August 1, 2011

Enhanced GEF and CBD efforts to explore funding options for achieving the Aichi

Montreal, 28 July 2011 – The Convention Secretariat, in collaboration with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) country support programme and with the financial support of the European Commission, organized a West Africa regional workshop on biodiversity and finance in support of the Nagoya biodiversity compact in Monrovia, Liberia, on 22 July 2011. The GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop for the region was held in the same venue from 19 to 21 July 2011.

National focal points of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Global Environment Facility from Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Togo attended the regional workshop on biodiversity and finance. They commented that by merely bringing all focal points together alone was already a tremendous achievement for the Convention and the financial mechanism, and strongly recommended that the GEF further organize regional and subregional financial workshops with full participation of all external donors and all relevant
international treaties.

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