SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, June 5 (IPS) - “While pressures on public budgets are growing and geopolitical tensions rising, it can be tempting to see environmental finance as optional. It is not,” GEF Interim CEO and Chair Claude Gascon told the closing plenary of the Eighth GEF Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, today.Read the full story, “Make Last Sprint for Nature a ‘Turning Point’ for Nature Finance, Eighth GEF Assembly Told”, on globalissues.org →