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