{"id":47470,"date":"2022-04-19T13:46:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47470"},"modified":"2022-04-20T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:46:54","slug":"united-states-pledges-600-million-to-combat-global-environmental-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47470","title":{"rendered":"United States Pledges $600 Million to Combat Global Environmental Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>04\/19\/2022 01:29 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p><em>The following is being released jointly by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of the Treasury.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Begin text:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On April 8, the United States pledged\u00a0$600.8 million over the next four years to support the eighth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF-8).\u00a0\u00a0This is the United States\u2019 largest GEF pledge ever.\u00a0\u00a0This pledge aligns with continuing U.S. priorities and supports the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s commitment to addressing climate change, conserving global carbon sinks and other critical ecosystems, and restoring the health of our ocean.\u00a0 The United States joined 28 other donors in collectively pledging more than $5 billion to support GEF-8, a nearly 30 percent increase over GEF-7.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. pledge will help protect tropical rainforests and other critical carbon sinks; address ocean plastics pollution; combat wildlife trafficking and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing; and reduce hazardous transboundary pollutants such as PCBs and mercury that can affect Americans\u2019 health.\u00a0\u00a0In its Fiscal Year 2023 Budget, the Administration has requested $150.2 million for the GEF, as the first of four planned installments for the U.S. contribution to GEF-8.<\/p>\n<p>The GEF is one of the world\u2019s largest dedicated funders of projects and programs to improve the global environment.\u00a0 The United States supported the establishment of the GEF in 1991 and has contributed to all seven replenishments.\u00a0\u00a0Since its launch in 1991, the GEF has provided nearly $22 billion in grants and mobilized another $119 billion in co-financing to safeguard the global environment.\u00a0 The GEF is the world\u2019s primary multilateral source of biodiversity finance and is the only multilateral environmental fund whose mandate is to achieve global environmental benefits across a diverse set of focal areas that also includes chemicals and waste, climate change mitigation, land degradation (including desertification and deforestation), and international waters.\u00a0 The GEF Partnership spans 184 member governments, 18 implementing agencies, more than 500 civil society organizations, international bodies and funds, and businesses from every major sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_4931837277668501032mail_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04\/19\/2022 01:29 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47471,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47470\/revisions\/47471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}