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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; - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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GEF Familiarization Seminar
2012United 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
•
UNEP’s Medium Term Strategy
and Programme of Work
• 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 co-finance)
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 Transferand 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 issuesBiodiversity : 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. agriculturePOPs and Ozone : Integrated life-cycle approaches, chem & wasteSynergies : Green Economy; Convention obligations/reporting as One