It was created as a project financed by the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) and the Ministry of Energy Water ( MEW ) under the management of the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) and gradually established itself as an independent technical national center although it continues to be supported by the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) as indicated in the Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU ) signed between MEW and UNDP in June 18, 2007.

UNEP is also one of several Implementing Agencies for the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) and the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, and it is also a member of the United Nations Development Group.

In partnership with the Montreal Protocol of the Vienna Convention on Ozone Layer Depleting Substances, the GEF started funding projects that enable the Russian Federation and nations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to phase out their use of ozone-destroying chemicals.

* Targeted financial support for capacity-building and development initiatives through the Nagoya * Protocol ’ s financial mechanism, the Global Environment Facility ( GEF )

When a ligand activates the G protein-coupled receptor, it induces a conformational change in the receptor that allows the receptor to function as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor ( GEF ) that exchanges GDP for GTP on the G < sub > α </ sub > subunit.

* UNEP / GEF Regional Task Force on Economic Valuation

* UNEP / GEF South China Sea Project and its Fisheries Refugia Portal and National Reports on Fish Stocks and Habitats in the South China Sea

The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel provides technical and scientific advice on the GEF ’ s policies and projects.

GEF Agencies play key roles in managing GEF projects on the ground.

As part of the restructuring, the GEF was entrusted to become the financial mechanism for both the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The GEF subsequently was also selected to serve as financial mechanism for two more international conventions: The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants ( 2001 ) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ( 2003 ).

The Least Developed Countries Fund for Climate Change ( LDCF ) and the Special Climate Change Fund ( SCCF ) were established by the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) in response to guidance from the Conference of the Parties ( COP ) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ).

He currently is Chair of the Scientific Technical Advisory Panel ( STAP ) for the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ), the multibillion dollar funding mechanism for developing countries in support of their obligations under international environmental conventions.

Through its Small Grants Programme ( SGP ), managed by Delfin Ganapin, Jr., the GEF has also made more than 12, 000 small grants directly to nongovernmental and community organizations, totalling $ 495 million.

More specifically GEF Agencies assist eligible governments and NGOs in the development, implementation, and management of GEF projects.

The decision to make the GEF an independent organization enhanced the involvement of developing countries in the decision-making process and in implementation of the projects.

An independent financial organization, the GEF provides grants to developing countries and countries with economies in transition for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants.

The GEF has allocated $ 9. 2 billion, supplemented by more than $ 40 billion in cofinancing, for more than 2, 700 projects in more than 165 developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

The GEF Assembly is the governing body of the GEF in which representatives of all member countries participate.

Ministers and high-level government delegations of all GEF member countries take part in the meetings.

This is made possible by virtue of a guanine-nucleotide exchange factor ( GEF ) domain primarily formed by a combination of IL-2 and IL-3 along with adjacent residues of the associated TM helices.

The Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) unites 182 member governments — in partnership with international institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector — to address global environmental issues.

It functions as an independent board of directors, with primary responsibility for developing, adopting, and evaluating GEF programs.

In specific cases of integrated projects that include components where the expertise and experience of a GEF agency is lacking or weak, the agency is invited to partner with another agency and to establish clear complementary roles so that all aspects of the project can be well managed ( GEF Instrument, Paragraph 28 ).

The GEF would provide new and additional grants and concessional funding to cover the " incremental " or additional costs associated with transforming a project with national benefits into one with global environmental benefits.

The Green Education Foundation ( GEF ) promotes sustainability education with a K-12 curriculum.

CITES would benefit from access to Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) funds-although this is difficult given the GEFs more ecosystem approach-or other more regular funds.

Guidelines for Conducting Economic Valuation of Coastal Ecosystem Goods and Services, UNEP / GEF / SCS Technical Publication No. 8.

Procedure for Determination of National and Regional Economic Values for Ecotone Goods and Services, and Total Economic Values of Coastal Habitats in the context of the UNEP / GEF Project Entitled: “ Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand ”, South China Sea Knowledge Document No. 3.

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UNEP / GEF / SCS Technical Publication No. 2.

UNEP / GEF / SCS Technical Publication No. 5.

UNEP / GEF / SCS Technical Publication No. 11.

Established in 1991, the GEF is today the largest funder of projects to improve the global environment.

The GEF partnership includes 10 agencies: the UN Development Programme ; the UN Environment Programme ; the World Bank ; the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ; the UN Industrial Development Organization ; the African Development Bank ; the Asian Development Bank ; the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; the Inter-American Development Bank ; and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

* The program was stored as a linked list of lines ; a or took O ( n ) ( linear ) time, and although Applesoft programs were not very long compared to today's software, on a 1 MHz 6502 this could be a significant bottleneck.

Some artists have also been linked to neo-Nazism, although most black metal fans and most prominent black metal artists shun Nazism and oppose its influence on the black metal subculture.

Cazenovia Lake to the east, although smaller, is sometimes called " the twelfth Finger Lake ," because it is similar in shape, located in Appalachian hill terrain, with a historic village linked to other Finger Lakes by US 20.

It is now common for this to be sung in a circle of linked arms that are crossed over one another as the clock strikes midnight for New Year's Day, although it is only intended that participants link arms at the beginning of the final verse, co-ordinating with the lines of the song which contain the lyrics to do so.

These areas were separate from the county corporates that existed in some of the larger towns and cities although linked to the county at large for other purposes.

No conclusive proof has linked Booth's kidnapping or assassination plots to a conspiracy involving the leadership of the Confederate government, although historians such as David Herbert Donald have said, " It is clear that, at least at the lower levels of the Southern secret service, the abduction of the Union President was under consideration ".

Regularly scheduled meals ( every few hours ) have also proven more wholesome than infrequent or haphazard ones, although a recent study has also linked more frequent meals with a higher risk of colon cancer in men.

However, this power can be surrendered to other organizations if the Attorney General declares the case to be linked to an intentional criminal act, although the NTSB would still provide technical support in such investigations.

The construction of the Ringbahn around the city's perimeter, linked to all the major stations, allowed the connecting line to be scrapped in 1871, although the Ringbahn itself was not complete and open for all traffic until 15 November 1877.

For example, moxifloxacin carries a higher risk of QTc prolongation, and gatifloxacin has been most frequently linked to disturbed blood sugar levels, although all quinolones carry these risks.

They also claim that the belief that solar deities are primarily male is linked to the fact that a few better known mythologies ( such as those of late classical Greece and late Roman mythology ) rarely break from this rule, although closer examination of the earlier myths of those cultures reveal a very different distribution than the contemporary popular belief.

In several episodes, events have been linked to specific time periods, although this timeline has been contradicted in subsequent episodes.

One of the most influential Spanish think tanks is the Elcano Royal Institute, created in 2001 following the example of the Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House ) in the UK, although it is closely linked to ( and receives funding from ) the Socialist government in power.

In many countries, boar are farmed for their meat, and in countries such as France and Italy, for example, boar ( sanglier in French, " cinghiale " in Italian ) may often be found for sale in butcher shops or offered in restaurants ( although the consumption of wild boar meat has been linked to transmission of Hepatitis E in Japan ).

The warren known as Churchill is not described in detail, although it is linked to Hong Kong Luna via a tube across the Sinus Medii on the Lunar Prime Meridian.

Robinson was involved in the New Politics Initiative, an effort to build a new progressive political party in Canada closely linked with social movements and labour, and the NDP's renewal process, although he remained committed to the party after the NPI's defeat at the 2001 general convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

In several episodes, events have been linked to specific time periods, although this timeline has been contradicted in subsequent episodes.

For this reason some linguists ( e. g. Jernej Kopitar and Rajko Nahtigal ) linked Abraham closely to the origin of the Freising Manuscripts and even attributed to him the authorship of one of the texts and suspected that he was of Slovene origin, although this was later disproven.

During the Fronde, Thomas Francis linked himself closely with Cardinal Mazarin, who, although effectively prime minister of France, was like him an Italian outsider at the French court.

During the Fronde, Thomas linked himself closely with Cardinal Mazarin, who, although effectively prime minister of France, was like him an Italian outsider at the French court.

Research also proves that although phocomelia was non-existent through the 40 ’ s and 50 ’ s, by time the drug was released in Germany in the 60 ’ s, cases of severe phocomelia amplified ; the direct cause was linked to thalidomide.

The controversy was linked to 10 extra minutes added to the film, although none of this footage contained graphic violence.

The King's southern tour and reform plans, although administratively sound by modern standards, had created much local opposition and modern historians have linked the King's role in Poiters with the sudden outbreak of violence.

Some scholars believe that Juno was in fact merely another version of Quiritis, although others say that the two are linked merely by borrowing.

There is currently a large amount of scientific interest in conferring beneficial teosinte traits, such as insect resistance, perennialism and flood tolerance, to cultivated maize lines, although this is very difficult due to linked deleterious teosinte traits.