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Climate Change Mitigation (CC-M)
Ming Yang
Senior Climate Change Specialist
GEF American University Seminar
Washington, DC
April 3, 2012
Unique characters of CC-M
Maximize Global Environmental Benefits by:
– Mitigating GHG emissions;
– Increasing use of renewable energy and decreased using of fossil
energy;
– Improving efficiency in energy production and use;
– Increasing adoption of a low-carbon development path via technology
transfer, market transformation, and enabling activities;
– Increasing sequestration of carbon; and
– Reducing GHG emissions and enhancing carbon stocks under
sustainable management of land use (including peatlands), land use
change, and forestry.
Strategic Objectives for GEF-5
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SO1: Demonstration, deployment, and transfer of
innovative low-carbon technologies
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SO2: Market transformation for energy efficiency in
industry and the building sector
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SO3: Investment in renewable energy technologies
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SO4: Energy efficient, low-carbon transport and urban
systems
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SO5: Conservation and enhancement of carbon stocks
through sustainable management of land use and
forestry
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SO6: Enabling activities and capacity building
Source: Aoki C. (2011)
Tech Transfer Embedded in CCM Strategy
 GEF-5 support address the continuum from applied R&D to diffusion
 Sectors: energy efficiency, renewable, transport, urban systems, LULUCF
Source: Aoki C. (2011)
Financing Climate Change under
GEF Trust Fund
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GEF Trust Fund has invested over $3 billion in over 150 countries
 Mitigation projects, Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs), National
Communications to the UNFCCC
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Catalytic, innovative, and cost-effective
 Leader in financing new, emerging low-carbon technologies
 Pioneered market-based approaches, innovative instruments
 Leveraged more than $18 billion co-financing
 Over 2.5 billion tonnes of CO2 avoided
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Largest multilateral public-sector technology transfer mechanism
 Financed demonstration, deployment, diffusion, and transfer of
environmentally sound technologies
Source: Aoki C. (2011)
GEF Relations with other institutions
• Financial mechanism for United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change;
• Partnership with 10 UN agencies and multilateral
banks;
• Information sharing with other international
agencies such as the International Energy Agency
and the United Nations Foundation;
• Working with national governments and civil society
organizations for project development.
Facilitate public behavior via new policy:
Project Example 1: Kazakhstan EE lighting
• Objective: Phase-out incandescent lamps
• Approaches:
– policy development and implementation;
– market development;
– education and outreach; and
– project demonstration.
• Target: Mitigate up to 71 million tons of CO2
Institutional development and technology transfer:
Example 2: China Industrial boiler EE improvement
Institutional framework and governance impacts
Promote new standards for boiler design
Yes
Strengthen certification for boiler operation
Technology dissemination
National sales and market promotion for GEF
supported boilers
Global and local benefits
GHG emission mitigation (million tCO2e)
Technology transfer (number of patents)
Targeted sales of GEF-supported boilers at
project completion (tons/hr)
Yes
Yes
Yes
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