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Faster eco-improvement urged on multiple fronts despite financial cuts

The world's foremost international organization for financing projects on environmental change sent up smoke signals warning that 'incremental change will not suffice.'

Financiers of environmental projects say business as usual won't get the job done.
Financiers of environmental projects say business as usual won't get the job done. (AN/Bart/Unsplash)

WASHINGTON (AN) — The world's foremost international organization for financing environmental change sent up smoke signals warning that far faster action is needed on many fronts.

The Global Environment Facility, or GEF, said the current incremental rate of change trying to improve how the Earth's resources are managed will not be enough to further reduce poverty and save the planet from catastrophic effects of climate change, vanishing species and other environmental crises.

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