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Building Effective International Environmental Regimes: The Case of the Global Environment Facility

In 1990, the World Bank and the United Nations created an international financing mechanism known as the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Funded by a small number of countries from the industrialized North, the GEF is designed to provide concessional financial assistance to lower and middle income developing countries for the incremental cost of projects with global environmental benefits. Following the 1992 Rio Conference, the GEF was appointed as the financing mechanism for both the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Climate Change Convention. Despite its short existence, the GEF has attracted a great deal of criticism. Drawing on evidence from selected GEF pilot projects, this article argues that much of the criticism is unjustified. The second part of the article outlines some constructive policies designed to assist the GEF successor, the GEF II, which has become a more effective mechanism to protect the global commons and promote sustainable development.

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