Global factors such as technological advances, lowered costs, available capital, consumer demand and climate change have been encouraging the development and deployment of clean technologies as part of low-carbon economic growth.

In November 2018, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released an evaluation of its contributions to integrated natural resource management for sustainable agriculture.

"How the world deals with large and serious problems is almost certainly going to shape our collective future" is the second line – and a promising start – in this edited Springer volume titled

The scale and urgency of the climate crisis demands rapid action to prevent a range of consequences – from increased droughts and floods to huge economic losses and more extreme natural disasters.  

You can't have your cake and eat it, too. At least that's what we've always been told.

They say multitasking is counterproductive. But what about trying to achieve multiple environmental and socioeconomic objectives in one project?

My name is Jeneen R. Garcia. I've been a full-time evaluator at the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF IEO) for the last seven years.

One of the underlying assumptions of urban resilience oriented interventions is that cities control policies and vital systems, such as system-level management of infrastructure development, natural resource management, and setting environmental standards.

We have recently completed the Sixth Comprehensive Evaluation of the GEF (known by its acronym OPS6).

As part of the GEF-6 replenishment phase, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) introduced three integrated approach pilot (IAP) programs. These programs aim to address global environmental issues more holistically.