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<p><a style="color: #21759b; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the past few months a small team of journalists from across the world has been on the ground finding out about the work of some GEF-funded projects and is present in Samarkand, Uzbekistan for the Eighth GEF Assembly 2026. Here is the team:</a></p>
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