GEF raises $3.9bn ahead of funding deadline, $1bn below previous budget

Amid aid cuts, donor governments pledge less nature and climate funding to the Global Environment Facility (GEF), with the four-year package to be finalised in late May
Petrus Asuy sow forest crops seed in his nursery in Muara Tae Village, East Kalimantan Province of Indonesia on September 2015. The crops would be planted in the intact forest as part of community reforestation. Of their original 11.000 hectares of land, only 400 hectares can survive when the rest were destroyed by palm oil plantations and coal mining. In 2015, United Nations awarded Equator Prize to Muara Tae Community to recognize their effort in protecting ancestral forest. Agriculture and agroforestry are the primary income for indigenous people in Indonesia. Forest and agriculture land conversion for monoculture plantations and coal mining have threaten the indigenous communities. When the threat become rampant, indigenous people believe that planting trees and farming are considered as an act to protect their land.
Petrus Asuy sow forest crops seed in his nursery in Muara Tae Village, East Kalimantan Province of Indonesia on September 2015. (Photo: ClimateVisuals)

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