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The same goes for environment- and climate-related aspects. The only mechanism at international level worth mentioning in this context is the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

72. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to present a report on the projects financed under the Global Environment Facility and to assess their impact on biodiversity;

70. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to present a report on the projects financed under the Global Environment Facility and to assess their impact on biodiversity;

38. Stresses that a global strategy for confronting communicable diseases can succeed only if appropriate and affordable vaccines and medicines are developed for prevention and treatment; considers that such a programme requires commitment to finance the purchase and distribution of these products on a global basis (as for polio vaccine); recommends that a global fund be established to target the three major communicable diseases (FFID - Fund for Infectious Diseases); considers that such an "outcome-driven” fund, under the aegis of the WHO and UNAIDS, supported by the EU, G8, the World Bank, the IMF and open to public and ...[+++]private contributions (public private partnership with NGOs included), can complement ongoing support to strengthen national health infrastructures and promote access to medicines and treatment; considers that allocation to a global fund should be additional to existing aid efforts and be framed in the context of health as a global public health good;

38. Stresses that a global strategy for confronting communicable diseases can succeed only if appropriate and affordable vaccines and medicaments are developed for prevention and treatment. Such a programme requires commitment to finance purchase and distribution of these products on a global basis (as for polio vaccine). A global fund should be established to target the three major communicable diseases (FFID - Fund for Infectious Diseases). Such an "outcome-driven" fund, under the aegis of the WHO and of UNAIDS, supported by the EU, G8, the World Bank, IMF and open to public and private ...[+++] contributions (public private partnership with NGOs included), can complement ongoing support to strengthen national health infrastructures and promote access to medicines and treatment; allocation to a global fund should be additional to existing aid efforts and be framed in the context of health as a global public health good;