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UNEP
GEF and the Conventions
Expanded Constituency Meeting,
Belize City March 1-3, 2011
Enabling Activities
Option to request Enabling
Activities through Implementing
Agencies is enshrined in GEF-5
Programming/Policy Documents
EAs in the Caribbean
UNEP - 30 enabling activities across a
number of focal areas and GEF,
including:
• Biodiversity
• Climate Change
• Persistent Organic Pollutants
• National Capacity Self Assessments
(NCSAs)
UNEP/GEF-5 Biodiversity
Enabling Activities
UNEP EA Umbrella Project under
discussion with GEFSEC to include
(a) fifth national report
(b) revision of NBSAP
(c) ??? 2nd national Biosafety report
(due later this year, so direct access
option?)
UNEP/GEF-5 UNCCD
Enabling Activities
PRAIS I – Performance Review &
Assessment of Implementation System
($2.5 M GEF, Jan 201-June 2011):
indicators, guidelines & rprtg formats;
assessment baseline & rprts; KM, M&E,
dissemination
Global Partnership (network of Regional
Reference Centres) – CATIE & CEHI
for the Caribbean
PRAIS II
Assist countries with their 5th national
reporting (2012) – receiving support at
country level …..
UNEP is currently working with the
UNCCD Secretariat and the GM on the
development of the partnership to
continue in its capacity efforts, eg.
provide assistance to countries that
choose to report on the entire set of
impact indicators in 2012.
UNEP/GEF-5 Climate Change
Enabling Activities
Option for Direct Access thru GEF
Secretariat or thru Implementing
Agencies.
Tailored modalities under Discussion
with GEF Secretariat
GEF-4 CC Nat’l
Communications
Project objectives:
• Support countries develop the next round of National
Communications, with a focus on strengthened
reporting national efforts aimed at making national
communications relevant for policy making.
Main activities:
• National stocktaking and stakeholder consultations
• Climate change enabling activities, including National
Communications.
• National Communications Support Programme
National Communications
GEF-4 CC Nat’l
Communications
• Main achievements so far:
• 25 Initial National Communication
submitted to the UNFCCC
• 35 Second National Communication
being drafted or submitted to UNFCCC
• 20 Third National Communications under
preparation
GEF-4 CC Nat’l
Communications
Main partners: National governments, UNDP, UNFCCC,
GEF, regional centers of excellence. Total
budget:US$ 26 M
GEF collaboration benefits:
• Timely and high quality National Communications
• Comprehensive, quantitive data on emissions useful
for UNFCCC negotiations
• Cost effectiveness/ innovative aspects:
• Full agreed or incremental costs for National
Communications.
UNEP/GEF-5 Persistent Organic
Pollutants Enabling Activities
STATUS: 8 (?) countries have
submitted NIPs POPs and involved in
GEF-5 UNEP NIPS IMP project / 3
countries have advanced NIPs drafts &
need to submit.
•GEF-5 NIPs updates modalities (Unido
charged with NIP updates Guidelines)
to be discussed w/ GEF Secretariat.
Funds for adaptation
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UNEP strengths and Niche
Development in Adaptation
• Assisting governments and local communities in
building resilience of vulnerable ecosystems and
economies through adaptation actions and ensuring
that adaptation measures are environmentally sound
and sustainable.
• Three mutually-supportive key pillars were identified
to support UNEP’s Niche:
• Building key adaptive capacity of developing world
• Increasing ecosystem resilience and reducing the risk of climaterelated disasters
• Mobilizing and using knowledge for adaptation planning
Unep’s
Work
on
Adaptation
•Contributed substantially to the IPCC Working Group II report in its
fourth assessment on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, through the
multi-million dollar GEF project Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation to
Climate Change (AIACC, 2002-2007), including building technical capacity
for 35 LDCs.
•Supported the completion of National Adaptation Programmes of Action
(NAPAs) for 15 LDCs and is assisting them for the implementation of
priorities identified under the NAPAs.
•Assisted 38 developing countries to conduct comprehensive vulnerability
assessments and identify adaptation options through the process of
preparation of National Communications.
•Completed recently the Economic Analysis of Adaptation Options in Africa.
•UNEP has recently initiated a Global Network for Adaptation, a
knowledge based approach which aims to support adaptation activities
under the UNFCCC;
•UNEP has initiated a global assessment on the impact of climate change
on environmentally induced migration,
Unep’s Work on Adaptation
UNEP has recently launched the Ecosystem-based
Adaptation (EbA) as one of the flagships under
climate change. It is an approach to work with nature to
build resilience of vulnerable ecosystems and use ecosystem
services for adaptation and disaster risk reduction. It will
support countries for adaptation actions with the following
key services and products:
•Methods, tools, guidelines and good practices to assess ecosystem
vulnerabilities;
•Piloting, experimenting and demonstrating EBA at ecosystem and
community level;
•National impact and vulnerability assessment of targeted ecosystems;
•Collection, packaging and dissemination of good practices through the
Global Adaptation Network
UNEP/GEF portfolio on
Adaptation
UNEP/GEF Adaptation portfolio driven by:
•Source of funding available: GEF, LDCF, SCCF, AF
•Operational guidance of the Funds
•Requests from countries
•Country’s readiness to execute
•Availability of technical expertise within DGEF and
other divisions
•The need for support in areas which fall under UNEP’s
comparative advantage and PoW.
Areas of intervention: Early Warning Systems and
Disaster Risk Management; Coastal protection;
Ecosystem management ; Capacity building and
Knowledge management
ADAPTATION
UNEP - GEF V
UNEP will continue assisting countries
accessing LDCF and SCCF
•Revising their NAPAs, if need be (as mandated
by Cancun decision on LDCF)
•Implementing their NAPAs and /or priorities
identified under NCs, TNAs with a focus on
the Ecosystem Based Adaptation
•Developing the tools for the resilience building
of the Global Environmental Benefits.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
http://tech-action.org
The Technology Needs Assessment (TNA)
Project assists select countries world-wide in
determining their technology priorities
regarding mitigation of GHG emissions and
adaptation to climate change.
The GEF financed TNA Project is implemented
by UNEP and executed by UNEP’s Division of
Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE)
and the UNEP Risoe Centre on Energy, Climate
and Sustainable Development (URC).
TNAs: Accelerated Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies in Selected
Countries
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Project objectives:
Expanded TNAs for the implementation of mitigation and adaptation tech action plans.
Main activities:
• Sensitization and awareness raising at high political level and of key players in countries in the
climate change area
• Fast-starting implementation of policies, legislative instruments, new financing mechanisms
and other critical measures specified in technology action plans
• Strengthening domestic technical capacities for absorption and long-term diffusion of proven
low carbon technologies
Main achievements
so far:
Currently, 36 countries are being supported to conduct technology needs assessments and
prepare technology action plans under the GEF-funded Global TNA project.
Pilot phase involving 15 countries, the following have been achieved:
Inception, awareness creation and capacity building workshops held
National experts trained on the use of updated TNA Handbook including - Methodology for
technology prioritization,
Use of technology database and the preparation of Technology Fact Sheets,
Use of multi-criteria analysis and financial analysis tools
Templates for the preparation of TNAs and Technology Action Plans prepared
The first of seven guidebooks have been published – namely Technology for Climate Change
Adaptation: Coastal Erosion and Flooding
Project website (www.tech-action.org) is operational
Second round countries from the Caribbean: Dominican Republic and Cuba
Main partners:
Appropriate regional and national public institutions (ministries, agencies), national and
international financial institutions, and UNEP Risoe Center.
Total budget:
US$ 24M
GEF collaboration
benefits:
By 2015, priority clean tech projects will be implemented in six countries, in the manufacturing,
energy and transport sectors, and technology cooperation partnerships will be strengthened.
Cost effectiveness/
innovative aspects:
• Significant C02 emissions reductions from baseline levels in the participating countries
Increased public investments in demonstration and deployment of low carbon technologies
• Increased private investments in diffusion of low carbon technologies
Budget available:
US$ 8M