Financial Mechanism and Resources

GEF-financed projects related to business and financial institutions

GEF-8 projects

  • 2022 Zimbabwe. Global Opportunities for Long-Term Development of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector in Zimbabwe- GEF planetGOLD Zimbabwe, UNEP, Project Financing: $5,000,000 11048
  • 2023 GEF-8 Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program Phase 3 (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela) (GEFID: 11198) Agency: WWF-US, CI, World Bank, FAO, UNDP. GEF Project Financing: $88,644,185. Co-financing: $557,827,180: guidelines and/or instruments which engage the private sector as well as the financial sector
  • 2023 GEF-8 Circular Solutions to Plastic Pollution (food and beverage sector) (Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, India, Jordan, Lao PDR, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, South Africa) (GEFID: 11181) Agency: WWF-US, UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP. GEF Project Financing: $96,280,581. Co-financing: $595,778,545: through engagement with the food and beverage sector, the IP aims to help businesses be more transparent on biodiversity impacts and promote sustainable consumption patterns
  • 2023 GEF-8 Ecosystem Restoration (Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, Chad, Congo DR, Cote d'Ivoire, Haiti, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Peru, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam). (GEFID: 11118) Agency: UNDP, CI, IFAD, UNEP, World Bank, FAO, IUCN. GEF Project Financing: $183,859,244. Co-financing: $1,627,501,995; advance policy coherence with regards to ecosystem restoration at the national level through policy changes to overcome restoration barriers and/or disincentives to enable more private sector participation
  • 2023 GEF-8 Eliminating hazardous chemicals from supply chains (fashion and construction supply chains) (Cambodia, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ecuador, India, India, Mongolia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Pakistan, Peru, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago) (GEFID: 11169). Agency: FAO, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO. GEF Project Financing: $45,674,998. Co-financing: $295,245,000: monitor through its program level indicators the legal, administrative or policy measures instated that encourage and enable business, and ensure that large and transnational companies and financial institutions, monitor, assess and disclose risk and dependencies on biodiversity; provide information to promote sustainable consumption and ensure sustainable consumption patterns
  • 2023 Asia and Pacific. Natural Capital Fund (NCF): Investing in Nature-Positive Agri-Food Enterprises in Asia and the Pacific (GEF ID: 11062) Agency: ADB; GEF Project financing: $13,761,469; Co-financing: $646,350,000.

Business and private sector
  • 2000 Establishment of Private Natural Heritage Reserves in the Brazilian Cerrado Brazil United Nations Development Programme $750,000
  • 2000 Valdivian Forest Zone: Private-Public Mechanisms for Biodiversity Conservation Chile The World Bank $726,670
  • 2001 Private Land Mechanisms for Biodiversity Conservation in Mexico Mexico The World Bank $725,000
  • 2001 Building Wider Public and Private Constituences for the GEF in Latin America and the Caribbean: Regional Promotion of Global Environment Protection through the Electronic Media Antigua And Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts And Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Uruguay, Venezuela, Regional United Nations Development Programme $998,062
  • 2002 Removing Obstacles to Direct Private-Sector Participation in In-situ Biodiversity Conservation Bolivia The World Bank $680,000
  • 2002 Improving Management of NGO and Privately Owned Nature Reserves and High Biodiversity Islands in Seychelles Seychelles The World Bank $814,000
  • 2003 East Asian Seas Region: Development and Implementation of Public Private Partnerships in Environmental Investments Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Korea DPR, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, Regional United Nations Development Programme $1,000,000
  • 2004 Conservation of Dry Forest and Coastal Biodiversity of the Pacific Coast of Southern Nicaragua: Building Private-Public Partnerships Nicaragua United Nations Development Programme $962,120
  • 2004 Environmental Business Finance Program (EBFP) Global The World Bank, International Finance Corporation $20,000,000
  • 2006 Building the Local Capacity for Promoting Energy Efficiency in Private and Public Buildings Bulgaria United Nations Development Programme $975,000
  • 2007 Private Sector Led Development of On-Grid Wind Power in Tunisia Tunisia United Nations Development Programme $2,000,000
  • 2009 Facilitation of Financing for Biodiversity-based Businesses and Support of Market Development Activities in the Andean Region Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Regional United Nations Environment Programme $6,414,021
  • 2010 The GEF Earth Fund: Public-Private Funding Mechanisms for Watershed Protection Global, Latin America and Caribbean Inter-American Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank $5,000,000
  • 2010 Sustainable Financing of Ecuador’s National System of Protected Areas (SNAP) and Associated Private and Community-managed PA Subsystems Ecuador United Nations Development Programme $6,400,000
  • 2010 SIP: Private Public Sector Partnership on Capacity Building for SLM in the Shire River Basin Malawi United Nations Development Programme $2,072,940
  • 2011 Mountains and Markets: Biodiversity and Business in Northern Pakistan Pakistan United Nations Development Programme $1,793,182
  • 2013 Promoting Business Models for Increasing Penetration and Scaling up of Solar Energy India United Nations Industrial Development Organization $4,365,174
  • 2013 PSG- Sustainable and Inclusive Agribusiness Development Project Senegal The World Bank $6,018,519
  • 2014 The GEF Earth Fund: Conservation Agreement Private Partnership Platform (CAPPP) Global United Nations Environment Programme $5,000,000
  • 2014 Energy Efficient Production and Utilization of Charcoal through Innovative Technologies and Private Sector Involvement Sierra Leone United Nations Development Programme $1,768,182
  • 2014 Building Adaptive Capacity to Catalyze Active Public and Private Sector Participation to Manage the Exposure and Sensitivity of Water Supply Services to Climate Change in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone United Nations Development Programme $2,940,000
  • 2016 Sustainable Business Models for Biogas Production from Organic Municipal Solid Waste Argentina United Nations Development Programme $2,779,849
  • 2016 Effectively Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation into Government Policy and Private Sector Practice Piloting Sustainability Models to Take the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) to Scale Global Conservation International $9,800,000
  • 2016 Creation of Conkouati Dimonika PA Complex and Development of Community Private Sector Participation Model to Enhance PA Management Effectiveness CDC&CPSPM Congo United Nations Environment Programme $2,889,434
  • GEF - 5 IDB-PPP MIF Public-Private Partnership Program Latin America and Caribbean, Regional Inter-American Development Bank $15,000,000
  • GEF - 5 AfDB-PPP Public-Private Partnership Program Africa, Regional African Development Bank $20,000,000
  • 2017 Growing Green Business in Montenegro Montenegro United Nations Development Programme $771,690
  • 2017 Structuring and Launching CRAFT: the First Private Sector Climate Resilience & Adaptation Fund for Developing Countries Global Conservation International $1,045,000
  • 2017 The Coastal Fisheries Initiative Challenge Fund: Enabling Sustainable Private Sector Investment in Fisheries (CFI-CF) Global The World Bank $7,873,394
  • 2018 Realizing the Biodiversity Conservation Potential of Private Lands Brazil United Nations Environment Programme $8,953,425
  • 2018 Sustainable, Accessible and Innovative Use of Biodiversity Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge in Promising Phytotherapic Value Chains in Brazil Brazil United Nations Development Programme $5,722,770
  • 2019 Integration of Natural Capital Accounting in Public and Private Sector Policy and Decision-making for Sustainable Landscapes Thailand United Nations Environment Programme $2,000,000
  • 2019 Staying within Sustainable Limits: Advancing leadership of the private sector and cities Global Conservation International $2,000,000
  • 2021 Conservation of wildcats and prey species through public-private partnerships and human-jaguar conflict management in Panama Panama United Nations Environment Programme $1,784,862
  • 2021 Transforming agricultural systems and strengthening local economies in high biodiversity areas of India through sustainable landscape management and public-private finance India United Nations Environment Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature $6,266,883
  • 2021 Development of an enabling environment for sustainable businesses based on the native biodiversity of Ecuador Ecuador Development Bank of Latin America $3,119,266
  • 2021 Building human well-being and resilience in Amazonian forests by enhancing the value of biodiversity for food security and bio-businesses, in a context of climate change Peru Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development $15,599,083
  • 2022 Business Action and Advocacy for the Planet Global Conservation International $2,000,000
  • 2022 Improved Financial Sustainability and Strengthened Resilience of Protected Areas Through Development of Sustainable Recreation and Partnership With Private Sector Bosnia-Herzegovina United Nations Development Programme $2,640,000
  • GEF - 7 Environmental routes to incorporate communities in good conservation practices and nature-based businesses that promote human development in ecosystems of high environmental and social vulnerability in the Regional Corridor El Palmar - Tariquia, in the dep Bolivia Development Bank of Latin America $1,855,763
  • 2023 Promotion of climate adaptation technology and business model innovations and entrepreneurship in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone United Nations Industrial Development Organization $8,932,420
  • 2023 Indicators and Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity conservation finance for Smallholders and Rural communities: leveraging private and public finance Benin, Senegal, Zambia, Regional International Fund for Agricultural Development $401,825
  • 2023 A private investment facility for nature-based coastal climate resilience in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) Global United Nations Industrial Development Organization $953,966
  • 2023 Public-Private Blended Finance Facility for Climate-Resilient Rice Landscapes Bangladesh, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Regional Food and Agriculture Organization $1,000,228

Enterprising
  • 1994 Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Program (IFC) Global The World Bank, International Finance Corporation $4,300,000
  • 1997 Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Program (IFC, first replenishment) Global The World Bank, International Finance Corporation $16,500,000