Triage was headlined back in 2006

The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the world's largest environmental funding body, received 3.13 billion dollars for environmental projects over the next four years amid rising concerns about the impact human activities are having on the Earth. This was headlined in August 2006 (2 full years ago) as "Triage for an Ailing Planet" by IPS. (Triage for an Ailing Planet http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34501 )

The amount was said to be the largest in GEF's history, since it was established 15 years ago out of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. With it the Bank promised to finance critical environmental programmes in developing countries, including small projects by non-governmental organisations and community-based groups.

Now two yeaars on we can ask 'what won funds and what did not?' In the past decade, three to four billion people in developing countries have been affected by climate-related disasters. This is at least 20 times the number of people affected by climate events in developed countries.

When it established this new fund 2 year ago the World Bank said that, "during the past century, the global climate has warmed by about 0.7 degrees Celsius because of human activities, with accompanying changes in rainfall patterns, extreme weather events and sea levels. The report said that another 1.4 degrees to 5.8 degrees Celsius temperature rise is projected in the next hundred years."

GEF was given very significnat funds to make climate change less dreadful for some people. Who received funding and did it help them?
Bob