Sunday, May 13, 2007
My reflection:
Global Environment Facility is an international organization which operates to provide conservation finance to set up funds to protect the global environment. Since 1991, the Global Environment Facility has provided more than $6.2 billion in grants and generated over $20 billion in co-financing from other sources. This has supported over 1,800 projects that produce global environmental benefits in 140 developing countries and countries with economies in transition.[1]
This article is formed by abstracts from different aspects of Global Environment Facility’s work. Their work are made efficient by globalization and they deal with the environmental consequence of globalization such as biodiversity, international water, climate change as mentioned in the article I have chosen. They also deal with the land degradation, ozone depletion etc. Under each category, the article include how much Global Environment Facility has spent to solve the environmental problems, what strategy they have applied to solve them and moreover, briefly some information on the projects conducted by Global Environment Facility to deal with the environmental challenge.
The Global Environment Facility is just one of the many international environment organizations which are set up to deal with the increasing environmental challenges. For example, there are also the UN Environment Programme (UNEP); the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); the Forest Stewardship Council; International Union of Forest Research Organizations and so on. The UN Environment Programme mainly focus on promoting sustainable development and environmental policies in developing countries with local governments. Using the UN Environment Programme as example, the UNEP has also been active in funding and implementing environmentally related development projects. Recently, it published Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which both showed the urge impotency to do something about climate change and suggested some methods about how to deal with them.
Why there are so many international environment organisations? Firstly, this is because of the growing communications between nations. Due to globalisation which result in increasing migration, trade, transportation and culture communication, more and more countries as coming together as one. They are also coming to face similar challenges, such as the environmental one. Some environmental problems such as the international water which will cross boundary know nothing about the border, will affect many countries together and can not be solved by one country’s effort. Hence, there is a need of international organisations to operate different countries around the world towards the same goal. Secondly, due to globalisation, increasing in pollution by increasing industry activities, trades, transportations are inevitable. Hence there is an increase in need of international organisations as the environmental challenge is becoming more and more serious.
Hence, we can see that international organisations are result forms of gloablisations to solve the problem caused by gloablisation.
[1]Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Environment_Facility
Signing off,
Li shihan
Future Perfect; Environment and Health Expert
6:25 AM
