Transcript Focal Area and Cross Cutting Strategies – Biodiversity and Sustainable Forest Management GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop March 22 – 24, 2011 Kyiv, Ukraine.

Focal Area and Cross Cutting Strategies
– Biodiversity and Sustainable Forest
Management
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
March 22 – 24, 2011
Kyiv, Ukraine
Biodiversity
Goal: the conservation and sustainable use
of biodiversity and the maintenance of
ecosystem goods and services
Convention on Biological Diversity
GEF Achievements in Biodiversity
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Campaign to Save the Hotspots
1998
$ 3.1 billion invested, $8.3 billion in cofinancing
to support more than 1,000 projects in 155 countries
$1.89 billion invested in the creation and management of protected areas
Catalyzed the achievement of the target of 10% of the world’s terrestrial areas under
protection: 2,302 protected areas spanning 634 million hectares, 700 globally
threatened species, 30 billion tons of stored carbon
40 conservation trust funds supported with $300 million
Over 265 million hectares of productive landscapes and seascapes became
biodiversity-friendly
Largest financier of forests: $1.5 billion supplemented by more than $4.5 billion in
cofinancing; more than 300 projects focusing on forest conservation and management
Pioneer investor in payments for ecosystem services schemes
Supported National Biosafety Frameworks in 123 countries
Enabled participation by civil society through the GEF Small Grants Program and the
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
5 Biodiversity Strategy Objectives
1) improve the sustainability of protected area systems
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Improve Sustainable Financing of Protected Area Systems:
Expand Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystem Representation:
Expand Threatened Species Representation:
Improve Management Effectiveness of Existing Protected
2) mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into
production landscapes/ seascapes and sectors
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Strengthen Policy and Regulatory Frameworks:
Implement Invasive Alien Species Management Frameworks:
Produce Biodiversity-friendly Goods and Services:
3) build capacity to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
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Single-country projects:
Regional or sub-regional projects:
Thematic projects:
4) build capacity on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing
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capacity building of governments for meeting their obligations under Article 15 of the CBD
building capacity within key stakeholder groups
5) integrate CBD obligations into national planning processes
through enabling activities
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Enabling activity support could be provided for revising NBSAPs in line with the CBD’s new strategic
plan
implementation of guidance related to the Clearing House
Responds to Key Drivers of Biodiversity Loss
GEF-5 Strategy Objectives
Drivers of Biodiversity Loss
Habitat
Change
Overexploitation
Invasive
species
Underlying/indirect driver: Policy and legal
framework, institutions and governance
1) Sustainable protected
area systems
2) Mainstreaming
biodiversity
3) Biosafety
4) Access and Benefit sharing
5) Enabling activities
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Biodiversity Portfolio Monitoring
Goal: Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the maintenance
of ecosystem goods and services.
Impacts:
Biodiversity conserved and habitat maintained in national protected area
systems.
Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity integrated into production
landscapes and seascapes.
Indicators:
• Intact vegetative cover and degree of fragmentation in national protected
area systems measured in hectares as recorded by remote sensing.
• Intact vegetative cover and degree of fragmentation in production
landscapes measured in hectares as recorded by remote sensing.
• Coastal zone habitat (coral reef, mangroves, etc) intact in marine protected
areas and productive seascapes measured in hectares
The GEF-5 SFM/REDD-plus Program
Sustainable forest management as a dynamic and
evolving concept aims to maintain and enhance
the economic, social and environmental value of
all types of forests, for the benefit of present and
future generations.
Why are forests important for GEF?
Forests deliver multiple environmental and social benefits:
• CLIMATE CHANGE : Slowing tropical deforestation is bound
to play a much larger role in mitigating climate change.
• BIODIVERSITY: Forests harbor over 60% of all
terrestrial plant and animal species.
• LAND DEGRADATION: Forests provide
livelihoods and vital environmental services
to hundreds of millions of people.
Prior GEF investments in forests
• The GEF has been funding forest projects since its inception in 1991.
• Forests/Forest management is not a focal area. Until 2006, GEF
support for forests was therefore mainly provided through the
biodiversity and land degradation focal areas.
• In June 2007, the GEF-4 SFM Program was created, better know as the
Tropical Forest Account (TFA). The TFA reserved funds from the
Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Land Degradation focal areas for
SFM operations in the three major tropical forest blocks (Amazonia,
Congo Basin, New Guinea/Borneo).
• In total, > $400 million were invested in forests in GEF-4.
Type of forest projects under GEF-4
Under GEF-4, investments in forests were
mainly single-focal area biodiversity
conservation projects, thus not emphasizing
the potential multiple benefits.
5%
LD
$46 m
Single Focal Area
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75%
MFA (2 Focal
Areas)
MFA (3 Focal
Areas)
CC
$59 m
BD
$322
m
The GEF-5 SFM/REDD-plus Program
• The goal for GEF-5 investment in SFM is to achieve
multiple environmental benefits from improved
management of all types of forests.
Objective 1: Reduce pressure on forest resources and generate
sustainable flows of forest ecosystem services
Potential projects:
• Forest policy, legal and regulatory framework (re)formulation;
• Forest law enforcement and government (FLEG);
• Sustainable harvesting technologies for timber and non-timber
products, forest function and management planning;
• Forest certification and verification of timber supply chains;
• Integrated forest fire management;
• Conflict resolution approaches (e.g. disputed forest tenure and use);
• Capacity building/Piloting of Payment for Ecosystem Services,
economic valuation tools.
• Industrial, agricultural and domestic technologies reducing the
pressure on forest (energy efficiency, fuel substitution);
• Increasing ecological connectivity at landscape level;
• Community and small-holder forestry
Objective 2: Strengthen the enabling environment to reduce
GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
(REDD+)
Potential projects:
• Competition for land use and land-use changes
(e.g. land use potential and related planning
activities; trade-off analysis);
• Building of technical and institutional capacities to
monitor and reduce GHG emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation;
• Testing and adopting approaches that allow for the
generation of revenues from the carbon market.