change, biodiversity, international waters, and land degradation. It also describes the GEF's strategic priorities for SIDS …

Biodiversity, a property of natural areas, provides a range of benefits to the economy including bioprospecting rents … countries harbor the great majority of biodiversity, and this diversity provides benefits, including knowledge and carbon … sequestration, to the whole world. However, protecting biodiversity is particularly costly for developing countries: the opportunity …