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Special Climate Change Fund
(SCCF)
Effendy Sumardja
GEF Focal Point - Ministry of Environment - Indonesia
What is GEF?
 An operating entity of the financial mechanism
of the Conventions
 Provides financing to country-driven projects
consistent with guidance approved by the
Conference of the Parties on policies, program
priorities and eligibility.
 Projects are mainly managed through its
Implementing Agencies: UNDP, UNEP and the
World Bank.
 SCCF is among the funds operated by GEF
(Decision 7/CP.7)
The twinning funds
Decided at CoP9 in Milan, 2003
• Decision 5/CP.9 – Special Climate Change Fund
(SCCF)
• Decision 6/CP.9 – Least Developed Countries Fund
(LDCF)
How the resources are provided?
• Through focal areas (biodiversity, land degradation,
ozone, persistent organic pollutants, and international
waters)
 Often have cross-cutting benefits supportive of the
objectives of the UNFCCC
 Through the development of human resources and
institutions
 Through activities supporting a range of global
environmental goals including carbon sequestration.
What does SCCF assist?
 Risk assessment of climate change impacts on
development projects
 Preparatory work of adaptation measures,
constituency building, awareness raising and
lessons sharing
 Climate-proof development lending
Who will be assisted?
 Most vulnerable and those with the greatest need
 Climate change impacts fall most heavily on the
link between adaptation and poverty reduction/
benefits for the poor
 Highlighting this link could help to mobilize
resources in the donor community
How to propose activities?
 The activities should address the challenges of
adaptation
 Use SCCF to finance the "adaptation additionality"
of project activities; i.e., the additional costs of
achieving sustainable development.
 Be simple and pragmatic
 Project may be based on a sliding proportional
scale of co-financing
SCCF and technology transfer
Financing should be used to
• address the barriers to the introduction of
new technologies
• explore the enabling environments,
institutional capacity, and availability of
information
In summary
• SCCF should serve as a catalyst to leverage
additional resources from bilateral and other
multilateral sources in both the adaptation and
technology transfer areas
• SCCF is voluntary and that it was important to
design the fund in such a way that donor
interests in contributing to the fund would be
enhanced