Financing biodiversity preservation

Abstract

The French government created the FGEF in 1994, in the wake of the Rio Summit, in order to bring its commitment to protection of the global environment in developing countries into practice. The FGEF encourages developing countries to implement sustainable development strategies, programmes and projects that address key issues for the global environment: biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, including desertification and deforestation, persistent organic pollutants, the stratospheric ozone layer.