Report of the Global Environment Facility to the Eighteenth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

This activity report presents the activities of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for fiscal year 2012 – from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 – in the area of climate change. The GEF, as an operating entity of the financial mechanism of the UNFCCC, has provided financing to country-driven projects. The report is presented in response to COP Decision 12/CP.2 that adopted and brought into force a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the COP and the GEF Council that provides, inter alia, that annual reports of the GEF will be made available to the COP through the Secretariat.