On the occasion of the Desertification COP taking place from December 2 to 13, let’s revisit the FFEM’s efforts to combat this threat to ecosystems and communities in arid regions. The French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) mobilizes innovative solutions through collaborative projects to preserve soils, support populations, and restore ecosystems.

From 21 October to 1 November 2024, Colombia will be hosting the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16), in the city of Cali. The parties will be meeting for the first time since the Kunming-Montreal Agreement of 2022 with its ambitious targets for protecting biodiversity. This conference will be an opportunity to assess progress on implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework. In response to the urgency of the triple planetary crisis, the FFEM is supporting groundbreaking initiatives that address biodiversity, climate and pollution issues while engaging local communities and promoting innovative finance. The FFEM is thus contributing towards several targets in the Global Biodiversity Framework.

The 67th meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council is taking place in Washington, DC, from 17-20 June 2024. In this interview* Dr. Claude Gascon, GEF's Director of Strategy and Operations, explains what it does and the many ways in which the GEF and FFEM work together.