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GEF and the Conventions
The Global Environment Facility:
• Is the financial mechanism for the Stockholm Convention on
Persistent Organic Pollutants
• Is the financial mechanism of the Intergovernmental
Negotiating Committee for the Convention of Mercury
• Supports the implementation of the Montreal Protocol in
countries with economies in transition
• It is an operating entity of the financial mechanism of the
UNFCCC
Strategies to Address the Dimensions of Sustainability and
Effective Delivery
Sustainable
Cities
 50 in 10
 Cities
Chemicals
International
Waters
Land
Degradation
Fisheries
Climate Change
Food
Security
 Amazon
 Partnership
 Commodities
for Africa
Biodiversity
Signature
Programs
Forests
Sustainable
Forest
Management
SD Themes
Focal
Area
Strategy
Delivery
Climate Change Mitigation
Goal: To support developing countries and economies in transition
in achieving transformational change towards development with
low carbon emissions. It is also intended that recipient countries
prepare for the new regime under the UNFCCC that will seek
commitments to emission reduction at a universal level.
Objectives:
• Promote innovation and technology transfer
• Demonstrate systemic impacts of mitigation options
• Promoting the enabling conditions to involve considerations of
climate change mitigation in national plans and development
agendas
Climate Change Mitigation
Summary of differences between GEF-5 and GEF-6
GEF-6
Diferencies
GEF-5
SO 1: Tech transfer
Objective 1, Program 1: Promote timely
development, demonstration and financing of low
carbon technologies and policies
Focus on early stage innovation and
tech transfer.
Risk taking.
Compliment other funds.
SO 2: Energy efficiency
Objective 1, Program 2: Develop and demonstrate
innovative policy packages and market initiatives to
foster a new range of mitigation actions
Support for voluntary innovative
measures, such as performancebased incentives, etc.
Objective 2, Program 1: Promote integrated lowcarbon urban systems
Links to the special initiative for
cities, urban management focus on
systematic
Objective 2, Program 2: Promote Conservation and
Enhancement of Carbon Stocks in Forest, and other
Land-Use, and Support Climate Smart Agriculture
Inclusion of agriculture , N2O and
methane. link to signature initiative
on food security
Objective 3, Program 1: Integrate findings of
Convention obligations enabling activities into
national planning processes and mitigation targets
Connecting Convention obligations
and enabling activities with national
planning and articulating ways to
achieve mitigation targets
SO 3: Renewable energy
SO 4: Transport and
urban
SO 5: LULUCF
SO 6: Enabling activities
Objective 1 - Promote Innovation and Technology
Transfer
Program 1: Promote the timely development, demonstration, and
financing of low-carbon technologies and policies
• Support the development, adoption and implementation of policies,
action plans, strategies and regulations that enable increased
investments in targeted sectors
• Emphasize innovation where risk mitigation is needed.
• Focus on technologies which are not yet commercially available but that
are market ready.
Objective 1 - Promote Innovation and Technology
Transfer
Program 2: Develop and demonstrate innovative policy packages and
market initiatives to foster a new range of mitigation actions
• Support countries in National Communications, BURs, and other
assessments with polices that efficiently reduce their emissions while
maximizing economic benefits.
• Offer countries the possibility to test innovative incentivies for payment
of emission reductions.
• Support financial risk assessment in carbon markets
• Promote private sector investment
Objective 2 – Demonstrate systemic impacts of
mitigation options
Program 1: Promote integrated low-carbon urban systems
• Support the GEF-6 Sustainable Cities signature initiative.
• Focus on urban projects with significant climate change mitigation
potential, to help cities shift towards low-carbon urban development
• Promote sustainable production and consumption practices to decouple urban growth and resource use.
• reduce use of persistent organic chemicals (POPs), methane emissions,
mercury, lead, and e-waste.
• Support sustainable transport infrastructure and systems
Objective 2 – Demonstrate systemic impacts of
mitigation options
Program 2: Promote Conservation and Enhancement of Carbon
Stocks in Forest, and other Land-Use, and Support Climate Smart
Agriculture
• Support land use, forestry and agriculture projects that significantly
mitigate climate change (including management practices by local
communities)
• Continue to reduce CO2 emissions and CO2 sequestration from the
agriculture and forestry sectors. Include activities targeting the CH4 and
N2O emissions.
• Focus on forest-agriculture because agriculture is the greatest driver of
deforestation globally
Objective 3 – Foster enabling conditions to
mainstream mitigation concerns
Program 1: Integrate findings of Convention obligations and enabling
activities into national planning processes and mitigation targets
• Help countries prepare National Communications, TNAs and BURs, as
well as the implementation of NAMAs
Chemicals and waste
Goal: "A significant reduction in the exposure of humans and the
environment to hazardous chemicals and waste of global
importance."
Objectives:
• Create the conditions and environment for managing harmful
chemicals and waste
• Reduce the prevalence of harmful chemicals and waste
• Support Least Develped Countries (LDCs) and Small Island
Developing States (SIDs) to take action on harmful
chemicals and waste.
Objective 1: Create the conditions and environment
for managing harmful chemicals and waste
Program 1: Support the preparation of reports to the conventions
and promote their integration into planning processes and national
action plans
Program 2: Support global monitoring, development of
registries, inventories and data collection
• Expand coverage of global monitoring sites to cover new
POPs and mercury
• Results will be used by Conventions for decision making
Goal 2: Reduce the prevalence of harmful
chemicals and waste
Program 1: Demonstrate and deploy environmentally safe
technologies, techniques, practices and approaches for the
elimination and reduction of harmful chemicals and waste
• Supports national pilot initiatives
Program 2: Deploy alternative techniques and practices to reduce
harmful chemicals
• Deployment of alternatives to DDT and other chemicals
• Design of products and processes that minimize the use and
generation of toxic substances and waste
Goal 2: Reduce the prevalence of harmful
chemicals and waste
Program 3: Promote innovative and sustainable financing, business
models and economic approaches / solutions to the disposal of
harmful chemicals and waste
• Support for the use of economic instruments
Program 4: Complete the phase-out of HCFCs in CEIT countries and
support Article 5 countries under the Montreal Protocol to achieve
climate mitigation benefits
• Only applicable to manufacturing of appliances and foams
Objective 3: Support LDCs and SIDS to take
action on harmful chemicals and waste
Program 1: Support regional approaches to eliminate and reduce
harmful chemicals and wastes
• Fast and flexible access to these countries
• Emphasizes regional and subregional cooperation (especially for the
collection and disposal of POPs waste)
• Supports management practices and innovative financial models
that are appropriate for these countries