8 March 2010: The Global Environment Facility’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (GEF STAP) held an open meeting at the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) headquarters in Rome, Italy, with representatives from GEF agencies, the GEF Secretariat, GEF Evaluation Office and Conventions, and observers from the GEF Council.
18 February 2010: The InfoShop of the World Bank has launched a book titled “Evaluating Climate Change and Development,” a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development, which was organized by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Evaluation Office and partners, in Alexandria, Egypt, in May 2008.
December 2009: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved US$4.5 million funding for a joint global project by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) on “piloting health adaptation to climate change.” 
20 January 2009: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved an emergency project to help restore power, which was lost from the Port au Prince earthquake, to key medical facilities and refugee camps. The US$3 million grant, co-financed with matching grants from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank Group, will use solar energy to produce clean electricity for medical centers, vaccine refrigeration and other critical relief efforts.
December 2009: The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has published a report in French on its role in the future climate change regime. The report, titled “New Treaty on Climate: Copenhagen 2009, role and place of the BOAD,” discusses the enhancement of the Bank’s environmental policy and proposed Carbon Initiative. 
14 December 2009: On the sideline of the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, the Government of Indonesia, and the European Environment Agency organized a special day to stress the central role of oceans in the Earth’s life support system and to address threats faced by coastal communities, especially in developing nations and small island States. 
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