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Operationalizing the GEF-7 Programming Directions
GEF-GCF Coordinated National DialogueLao PDRFebruary 12-14, 2019
GEF-7 Programming Framework
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GEBs
Focal AreasBiodiversity
Climate Change MitigationLand Degradation
International WatersChemicals and Waste
Biodiversity Focal Area
I. Mainstream biodiversity across sectors as well as within production landscapes and seascapes (Biodiversity Mainstreaming in Priority Sectors; Global Wildlife Program; (IWT and Wildlife and Tourism); Natural Capital Assessment and Accounting; Sustainable Use of Plant and Animal Genetic Resources; and Inclusive Conservation)
II. Address direct drivers to protect habitats and species(Prevention, Control and Management of Invasive Alien Species; Improving Financial Sustainability, Effective Management, and Ecosystem Coverage of the Global Protected Area Estate)
III. Further develop biodiversity policy and institutional framework framework (Biosafety, Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, and Enabling Activities)
Objectives:
I. Promote innovation, technology transfer for sustainable energy breakthroughs
II. Demonstrate mitigation options with systemic impacts
III. Foster enabling conditions for mainstreaming mitigation concerns into sustainable development strategies
Climate Change Focal Area Strategy
• Capacity-building Initiative on Transparency (CBIT)
• National Communications (NCs), Biennial Update Reports (BURs)
Objective 1: Promote innovation and technology transfer for sustainable energy breakthrough
• De-centralized renewable power with energy storage
• Electric drive technologies and electric mobility
• Accelerating energy efficiency adoption
• Cleantech innovation
Objective 3: Fostering enabling conditions mainstreaming mitigation concerns into sustainable development strategies
• Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency
• NDC Preparation
• Enabling activities
GEF investments in climate change to date (as of June 30 20181, exc. CBIT: Nov.19, 20182)
Mitigation
• 944 projects over 165 countries
• Invested more than $5.6 billion GEF funding
• Leveraged $47 billion from national and local governments, GEF Agencies, multilateral
and bilateral agencies, the private sector and civil society
• Capacity-building Initiative on Transparency: 41 national projects (as of Sep.18, 2018)
Adaptation
• $1.25 billion LDCF funding: 51 NAPAs, $71.6 million for support the NAP process
• $354.8 million SCCF adaptation program funding (SCCF-A)
Enabling Activities
• 421 projects: National Communications (NCs), Biennual Update Reports (BURs),
Technology Needs Assessment 1 GEF, 2018, Report of the GEF to the 24h Session of COP to the UNFCCC, August 31 2018, Council Document GEF/C.55/Inf.102 GEF, 2018, Progress Report on the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency,Nov 30, 2018, Council Document GEF/C.55/Inf.12.
Land Degradation Focal Area
I. Support on the ground implementation of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)
II. Creating an enabling environment to support LDN implementation globally, including UNCCD EAs
International Waters Focal Area
I. Strengthening Blue Economyopportunities
II. Improve governance in the Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ)
III. Enhance water security infreshwater ecosystems
Chemicals and Waste Focal Area I. IndustrialChemicals
II. AgriculturalChemicals
III. SIDS/LDCsprogram - Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States
IV. Enabling Activities
Impact ProgramsFood Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR)
Sustainable CitiesSustainable Forest Management
Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) : OverviewAchieving Transformational Shift – “Sustainability”
I.Efficient and effective food value chains for multiple benefits
II.Removing deforestation from supply chains
III.Expand restoration of degraded lands
FOLUR: Spatially explicit geographies
- Evidence of environmental threats (commodity driven deforestation, unsustainable agricultural systems, etc.)
- Evidence of commitment to promote sustainability in the supply or value chain
- Potential for applying a comprehensive land use approach – linking production, conservation, and restoration at scale
Focus on Comprehensive Land Use Planninga. To balance demands for increased food
production with potential for harnessing ecosystem services
b. Improve targeting of landscapes for delivering integrated solutions at scale
FOLUR: Value Chain Approach
Impact ProgramsFood Systems, Land Use and Restoration
Sustainable CitiesSustainable Forest Management
GEF-7 Approach- Sustainable Cities GEF 6- City-level Projects (27 cities, 11 countries) - Adopt an integrated approach for sustainable
urban development across sectors and governance levels.
- Dual support provided by GEF
- Specific grant support to selected cities for integrated urban development
- Global support on decision tools, knowledge, policy, finance, etc.
Expectations from SC IP projects
Program aspects Country Level City level
Transformational Impact
- Potential to deliver global environmental benefits for the country
- Adoption of an integrated planning approach for systemic change.
- Linkage with the Global Platform on Sustainable Cities (GPSC)
Leveraging resources - Commitment to leverage financial resources to support the city
- Commitment to finance specific sustainability solutions
- Mechanisms to crowd-in more finance through private sector
Political Will - A clear political will towards sustainable urban growth.
- Political will to support cities through enabling policy environment.
- City level political commitment towards sustainability
- Proactive engagement with global networks
Global Environmental Benefits
32 cities in the world’s biological hotspots
▪ Climate Change Mitigation-Decarbonization of cities through low carbon solutions
▪ BD and LD: Integrated land use planning to prevent habitat loss/degradation in peri-urban areas.
▪ Food system: Integrated land use planning to prevent agricultural land loss; logistics/transport system for food distribution.
▪ Marine plastics: employing a circular economy approach that addresses material and design engineering; consumer use; and recovery and recycling.
▪ Resilience: Urban design that is able to absorb potential shocks.
Impact ProgramsFood Systems, Land Use and Restoration
Sustainable CitiesSustainable Forest Management
Sustainable Forest Management: Overview
Focus on globally important forests
Amazon Forest
Congo Basin Forest
Dryland Forests
Require regional, ecosystem-scale approach to maintain integrity of the entire Biome
Small Grants Programs (SGP) - Overview
• The Small Grants Programs (SGP) finances community-led initiatives to address global environmental issues.
• Implemented by UNDP on behalf of the GEF partnership.
• Designed to mobilize bottom-up actions by empowering local civil society organizations, and poor and vulnerable communities, including women and Indigenous Peoples.
• Focus in GEF-7 on strategic and results-based investments at the local level in alignment with the GEF’s proposed Impact programs and focal area investments.
• The projects could require focus on promoting and supporting innovative and scalable initiatives at the local revel.
SGP- GEF-7: Strategic Initiatives
Landscape and Seascape as Overarching Approach:
1. Sustainable Agriculture and Fisheries - Food Security
2. Low-Carbon Energy Access Co-benefits
3. Community-based Threatened Ecosystems and Species Conservation: Land and Water
4. Local to Global Coalitions in Chemicals and Waste Management
5. Catalyzing Sustainable Urban Solutions
SGP Funding
1) Core Funding: $128 M for GEF-7
2) STAR Resources:
• (a) < $15 M in STAR: Up to 10% of STAR
• (b) >= $15 M Up to US$2 M
• (c) Upgraded countries can use up to US$5 million from their STAR country allocations.
3) Co-Financing
GEF-7