Welcome to the new blog of the GEF! Reviewing, providing input and approving proposals by environmental finance and grant-making institutions require access to current, broad-based information deriving from a variety of sources. Environmental issues are complex and their solutions laden by trade-offs. There are few, if any "correct" answers. This blog hopes to call attention and stimulate discussion on emerging results, analyses and commentaries coming up in the most prestigious and widely read scientific journals, particularly those relevant to GEF's mandate, but also to policy making in general. Allocating scarce resources to competing project concepts is hardly exact science, but sound scientific guidance can definitely help. We invite you to participate! ----------------------------------------- Gustavo Fonseca is the leader of the GEF Natural Resources Team.