Three Major Environmental Conferences in 2024
Submitted by admin on 22 October, 2024 - 18:29
Over a span of the next six weeks in 2024, three major international environmental conferences will
take place: COP16 on Biodiversity (CBD), COP29 on Climate Change (CCC), and COP16 on Desertification
(CCD).
These conferences will serve as crucial platforms for addressing some of the most pressing
environmental challenges of our time, including climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, desertification, and drought.
These issues are deeply interconnected, highlighting the need for
comprehensive solutions to safeguard our planet.
GEF SGP team in Ukraine announces the launch of Crowdfunding Campaign 
On October 9 and 10, 2013, the city of Sarny in Rivne region of Ukraine hosted the All-Ukrainian Environmental Forum «Children for Environment: The Future We Want!", supported by the UNDP/GEF Small Grants Programme within the framework of the GEF SGP Project “Ecological education of youth as a method to combat climate change”. The Forum was organised by the Children NGO "Environmental Club “Sprout” and other public organizations from the GEF SGP Non-governmental network in Ukraine. Words of sincere gratitude and support of the Forum participants were expressed in welcoming speeches by the Chief specialist of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Rivne Oblast State Administration V.S.Sovhut, Deputy Head of the Sarny District Administration T.Y. Sukhareva, the Sarny Mayor S.M. Yevtoshok, Vice President for Scientific and Educational Work of the State Environmental Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management V.E. Baranovska, Chairperson of the GEF SGP Steering Committee O.Yu. Brodsky, Director of the Sarny gymnasia school T.S. Shepel.