Download English - Global Environment Facility

GEF Familiarization Seminar
2012
United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP)
UNEP in the GEF
• The only Implementing Agency of the GEF whose core business
is the environment;
• Supports strategic and policy direction of GEF, and performs
legal obligations;
• Helps operationalise the GEF Trust Fund by assisting countries
and proponents to access funds;
• Work directly with countries ("direct" relations to executing
partners without need for country presence ); and packaging
partnerships on GEF projects.
• Enhances scientific rigor and relevance, including by providing
the secretariat of the STAP
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UNEP’s Medium Term Strategy
and Programme of Work
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Climate Change – Mitigation & Adaptation
Ecosystem Management
Disasters and Conflicts
Environmental governance
Harmful substances and hazardous waste
Resource efficiency
UNEP’s GEF Portfolio
Since the 1992, UNEP has
developed 576 projects with GEF
support of almost $1 billion ($0.97
billion), with an additional two
dollars for leveraged every GEF
dollar ($1.9 billion grant cofinance)
UNEP’s Comparative Advantage
in the GEF
1. Scientific assessments, monitoring, early warning;
2. Linking science to policy (capacity building, enabling
activities, legal support) at nat’l, reg’l and global levels;
3. Technology transfer and support, and through
partnerships, lifting barriers to upscaling;
4. Build capacities at country and reg’l level to test
innovative solutions;
5. Regional, transboundary and global cooperation;
6. Awareness raising, advocacy, and knowledge
management.
Scientific Assessments, Monitoring,
Early Warning - examples
• Carbon benefits of GEF projects, Economic
Assessment of Adaptation Options – CC
• Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) and
Strategic Action Plans (SAP) – IW
• Bioindicators and biomarkers – POPs
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment -BD
Linking Science to Policy at Nat’l,
Reg’l and Global Levels - examples
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (BD), followed by The
Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Initiative (see
www.teebweb.org)
• National Invasives Strategy and Action Plans (BD)
• Biosafety Frameworks (BD)
• National Communications (NCs), Technology Needs
Assessments (TNAs), National Action Plans for Adaptation
(NAPAs) - CC
• National Capacity Self-Assessments (NCSAs)
Innovation, Technology Transfer
and Lifting Barriers - examples
• Technology Transfer Networks, e.g. phasing out
Incandescent Lamps – global & countries - CC
• Greening the Tea Industry in East Africa – CC
• Greening the Cocoa Industry (10 countries) –
BD
Regional and Global Cooperation
• Regional Assessment of Persistent Toxic
Substances, Phasing out DDT and Introducing
Alternatives – POPs
• South China Seas Project/UNEP Regional Seas –
IW
• Flyways-based wetland & bird conservation
(Siberia to South China) – BD
• Regional Invasive Alien Species Projects (Africa,
Asia, Caribbean) - BD
Awareness Raising, Advocacy, and
Knowledge Management
• Assessment of Impacts of and Adaptation to
Climate Change (AIACC), Wind and Solar
Energy - CC
• Communities of Conservation – Safeguarding the
World’s Most Threatened Species/AZE Sites
(BD) – social marketing
• IW: LEARN -International Waters Learning
Exchange and Resources Network - IW
UNEP-GEF-5/emerging issues
Biodiversity : Access and Benefit Sharing; Invasive Alien Species;
marine protected areas; ecosystem restoration; migratory species….
IW : ABNJ; marine litter & micro-plastics; coastal erosion &
adaptation; carbon accounting methodologies for coastal
management…
Climate Change : Mitigation : Nationally Appropriate Mitigation
Actions (NAMAs); Black Carbon; hydrofluorocarbons, adaptation:
migration; modeling.
Land degradation : Ecosystem restoration; Conserv. agriculture
POPs and Ozone : Integrated life-cycle approaches, chem & waste
Synergies : Green Economy; Convention obligations/reporting as One
UNEP in the GEF
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