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UNDP-GEF PORTFOLIO IN
BIODIVERSITY IN EUROPE AND
CIS
Maxim Vergeichik, Regional Technical Adviser, Biodiversity
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UNDP mandate and services
Coordination of the UN system at the country level:
Technical assistance for human development:
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Policy dialogue and advocacy
Project development and implementation support
Fund mobilization and fiduciary management
Knowledge management and sharing
As GEF implementing agency:
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Mainstreaming UN convention matters into national economies,
development strategies, policies and institutions
Combine GEF with other sources of environmental finance to attract
investment in low carbon, climate resilient and ecosystem friendly
development pathways.
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UNDP-GEF portfolio under implementation
121 projects in 24 countries
International
Waters; 7
Land Degradation;
16
Biodiversity; 51
Climate Change;
43
Chemicals; 4
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ECIS portfolio by GEF focal area
$1 000
US$ million
$316
$144
$108
$100
$70
$56
$34
$30
$18
$16
$14
$10
Biodiversity
Chemicals
Climate Change
International
Waters
Land
Degradation
Focal area
GEF funding $mil
Co-financing $mil
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UNDP signature programs in biodiversity
OBJECTIVE:
To manage biodiversity so as to sustain the delivery of the ecosystem
goods and services on which human development depends
Unleashing the economic potential of
protected areas so that they are providing
ecosystem services, are climate resilient
and sustainably financed (GEF, ICI)
Terrestrial
protected areas
National level: 6
Steppe: 4
Wetlands: 8
Forests: 6
Mountains: 4
Agrobiodiversity: 1
Marine
protected
areas
3 projects
Protected area
finance:
7 projects
Mainstreaming biodiversity into
productive sectors and landscape to
ensure that production processes
maintain essential ecosystem functions
Sectors:
Landscapes:
Agriculture: 6
Fisheries: 1
Oil and Gas: 2
Banking: 1
National landuse planning
Municipalities
2 projects
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US$ million and number of
projects
Split between the 2 signature programs
300
250
200
$266
150
100
39
$92
12
50
$16
$50
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Protected Areas
Mainstreaming in production sectors
Signature programme
Number of projects
GEF funding $mil
Co-financing $mil
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GEF funding
Uzbekistan
Ukraine
Turkmenistan
Turkey
Tajikistan
Slovakia
Russia
Romania
Montenegro
Moldova
Macedonia
Lithuania
Latvia
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Hungary
Global
Georgia
Croatia
Bulgaria
BiH
Belarus
Armenia
US$ million
Projects by country
100
10
1
Cofinancing
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Results summary
Protected area projects:
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19 new PAs established, totaling 2.6 million hectares
85 PAs in the process of being established, totaling 0.81 million
hectares
126 existing PAs strengthened, totaling 9.7 million hectares
9.1 million hectares in 10 different Global 200 Ecoregions
Mainstreaming projects:
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2 areas set outside of economic activities in recognition of biodiversity
values covering approximately 1 million ha in land and water surface
10.25 million hectares of productive landscape within 9 Global 200
Ecoregions and 2 CI Hotspots have been put under biodiversitycompliant economic use regimes within seven projects
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PA program impacts (1):
Increased ecosystem resilience
New / larger PAs and corridors
 Russia, Kazakhstan Altai-Sayan forests: 0.5 million ha of new
PAs, cross border surveillance, protection, fire monitoring
 Russia Taimyr : 100,000 ha of tundra and boreal forest added
under protection
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PA program impacts (2):
Sustainable PA financing means effective conservation
 Romania Carpathian forests: tourism and sawdust briquetting
companies revenue-sharing with parks
 Macedonia: prerequisites for PES included in the Law on
Protected Areas.
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PA program impacts (3):
Incentives for alternative local development at PAs
Alternatives to destructive practices (e.g. fire-wood use)
 Uzbekistan Tugai Forest: gasification schemes supported to
cater for 60 households = annual cut reduction by 360 cubic
meters = saving 144 ha of virgin forests over 10 years
 Romania Carpathians: Sawdust briquetting
 Uzbekistan: straw-bale houses as an alternative to wood
Community forests
 Uzbekistan: community forests established
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PA program impacts (4):
Support to fire-prevention capacities in carbon rich
boreal forests (Russia, Kazakhstan)
 Are fires always bad for biodiversity?
 More studies in Russia Komi: fire management vs. fire
prevention
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BD mainstreaming impacts (1):
Putting agrobiodiversity under protection
 Georgia: 189 households cultivating land-races, over 80% of
these households are reporting higher pulse diversity on-farm
 Kazakhstan: 391,000 ha being set aside to manage wild fruit
diversity
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BD mainstreaming impacts (2):
supporting wise use of grasslands
 Bulgaria: 3 mobile teams helping farmers to implement
agrienvironmental measures
 Slovakia: 95.4 ha of rich fen mires have undergone active
restoration, upon which the groundwater table stabilized at 80%
of the restored sites.
 Czech Republic: 570 ha of formerly degraded land converted
into biodiversity-rich grasslands
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BD mainstreaming impacts (2):
successful peatland restoration pilots
 Belarus: 28,000 ha rewetted; reduced annual emission of CO2
by 280,000 tons; presence of wetland plant associations up by
58-96%
 Lithuania: wetland management plans were implemented at
785 ha of raised bogs
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Looking into GEF-5
Managing ecosystems to enhance their resilience and improve
their climate change mitigation and adaptation potential
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THANK YOU
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