Marcia Tavares
Higher floors for allocation of the GEF Trust Fund
Under the GEF's System for Transparent Allocation of Resources (STAR) for GEF's 7th replenishment, LDCs have higher minimum allocation floors.
Non-LDCs
LDCs
Biodiversity
2
3
Climate change
1
1.5
Land degradation
1
1.5
Aggregate
4
6
References:
https://www.thegef.org/sites/default/files/council-meeting-documents/GEF-C.55-Inf.03-GEF-7-STAR.pdf
http://www.thegef.org/sites/default/files/council-meeting-documents/EN_GEF.C.54.03.Rev_.01_STAR.pdf
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