The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Funding agency
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems.
The United Nations Environment Programme
Implementing Agency
The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT)
Mexico technical focal point
Aims to incorporate diverse social contexts and public bodies, criteria and instruments that assure the optimum protection, conservation and use of the natural resources of Mexico, thereby forming an inclusive and comprehensive environmental policy that allows to achieve sustainable development.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
US technical focal point
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep citizens informed of the changing environment around them.