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                             Sixth GEF Assembly to be held in Da Nang
                              21 May 2018 | 02:41:00 PM 
                             The Sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) will take place from June 27-28, 2018 at the Furama International Conference Center in Da Nang, Vietnam. This assembly was set up to tackle the planet’s most pressing environmental problems.
                             
 Held every four years, the GEF Assembly brings together environment  ministers and other senior officials from its 183 member countries,  along with heads of UN agencies, regional development backs, civil  society organizations and business leaders to share ideas, solutions and  actions needed to protect the global environment.
Held every four years, the GEF Assembly brings together environment  ministers and other senior officials from its 183 member countries,  along with heads of UN agencies, regional development backs, civil  society organizations and business leaders to share ideas, solutions and  actions needed to protect the global environment.
“A clear majority of donors have stepped up their support for the GEF,  signaling the urgency of the global environmental agenda, and trust in  the GEF to help tackle the problem and achieve even greater results,”  said Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO and Chairperson.
Last month, close to 30 countries jointly pledged $4.1 billion to the  GEF for its new four-year investment cycle, (known as GEF-7), to better  protect the future of the planet and its inhabitants.
With the health of the global environment worsening, the GEF received  strong support in its efforts to help safeguard the world’s forests,  land, water, climate, and oceans in order to build green cities, protect  threatened wildlife, and tackle new environmental threats like marine  plastic pollution.   
These issues and more will be on the agenda of the GEF Assembly.
The GEF Assembly, with all sessions open to the media unless otherwise  indicated, will include statements from current and former heads of  state, expert presentations and a series of interactive roundtables on  the new themes of GEF-7.
The opening plenary sessions on June 27 will cover the state of the  global environment, the ambition needed to help transform the systems  that support how we live, how we eat, how we move, how we produce and  consume, and how implementation of GEF-7 can contribute to the necessary  systems change.
Fourteen interactive high-level round tables will dig deeper into new  themes in GEF-7 and other global environment issues. Each round table  will feature well-known speakers and interventions from ministers, to  discuss the challenge, what needs to be done, and how the GEF and others  can address the problem.
The GEF Assembly will be preceded by the 54th GEF Council Meeting on  June 24-26 and the 24th Least Developed Countries Fund/Special Climate  Change Fund Council Meeting and a Civil Society Forum on June 26. There  is an opportunity to visit GEF projects surrounding Da Nang on June 29.   The week will also feature numerous side events and exhibitions. Source:  VET
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