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MDG Achievement Fund - Environment and Climate Change thematic window


Administered by UNDP


Area of focus - Adaptation, Mitigation - general


Date operational - 2007


The MDG Achievement Fund (MDG-F) was established by the Government of Spain and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to accelerate efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals.

Environment and Climate Change is one of eight thematic areas supported by the MDG-F.


The objective of this part of the fund is to help reduce poverty and vulnerability in eligible countries by supporting interventions that improve environmental management and service delivery at the national and local level, increase access to new financing mechanisms and enhance capacity to adapt to climate change.

This part of the fund is now closed, although finance for approved projects is still being disbursed and monitored by CFU.

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The Greater Noida authority has decided to develop an eco park across 2,500 acres on the lines of forest reserves in Paris in France. Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, had announced the project of development of the eco park in

Gautam Budh Nagar to combat rising pollution.