NEW YORK Faced with mounting environmental challenges, Iran is implementing an ambitious program to reduce greenhouse gases and restore dried wetlands, but it would benefit from more international cooperation, including a resumption of lending by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a senior official says. In an exclusive interview Sept. 22 on ...

The head of the Environment Protection Organization has said that the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has paid only $4.2m in assistance to Iran for environmental projects and suspended the remaining $26m under pressures from Western countries. Masoumeh Ebtekar further said under global conventions protection of the environment is a common, collective ...