The GEF is the world’s leading international institution dedicated to investing in the joint management, care, and restoration of our planet.\n\nThe Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established on eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems. Since then, the GEF has provided over $14 billion in grants and mobilized in excess of $70 billion in additional financing for more than 4,000 projects. The GEF has become an international partnership of 184 countries, international institutions, civil society organizations, and private sector to address global environmental issues.