Global Environment Facility co financing supporting over 14,500 community based projects in over 125 countries. An independently operating financial organization, the GEF provides grants for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), mercury, sustainable forest management, food security, sustainable cities. The GEF also serves as financial mechanism for the following conventions: The GEF, although not linked formally to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MP), supports implementation of the Protocol in countries with economies in transition. The Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured GEF is the document that
The Horse that Lost its Liberty (1484) under the title “Of the hors, of the hunter and of the hert” as teaching the moral given by Aristotle that "None ought to put hym self in subiection for to auenge hym on other". Samuel Croxall cites Horace’s conclusion that one should never yield one’s liberty to another for reasons of avarice. The fable was told as “The horse seeking vengeance on the stag ("Le cheval s'étant voulu venger du cerf") in La Fontaine's Fables and ends on the reflection that without personal liberty all other purchases are valueless: The alternative version of the fable concerns a boar