I would like to close with two headlines I saw recently. Never before within memory has the Amazonian rainforest near the Yanomami Indian reservation been on fire. Three months of no rain and a 20,000 square mile savanna fire blazing nearby. The second headline concerns people living on England's eastern coast. Rising sea threat to homes.
Insurance premiums set to soar as research shows flood risk due to global warming.
No one, no matter how isolated or how industrialized, is exempt from global environmental problems. As we reach out to communities, to the media and other constituencies, let us give them the good news as well, and encourage them to spread it far and wide. By taking up a common agenda, and working together, we can make this a more hopeful and a more secure world. Your GEF stands ready to assist each of you and the entire global community in this endeavor.