Transcript Climate Change Presentation - English

GEF-5 Strategy for
Climate Change Mitigation
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
March 1 – 3, 2011
Belize City, Belize
Mandate of the GEF
 An operating entity of the financial mechanism of the
UNFCCC (and other global environmental conventions)
 A partnership of 182 member countries along with the
private sector and civil society
 10 GEF implementing and executing agencies
– MDBs: World Bank and regional development banks
– UN agencies: UNDP, UNEP, FAO, IFAD, and UNIDO
 Provides grant and concessional financing for projects in
developing countries and economies in transition that
protect the global environment while promoting
sustainable development
Financing Climate Change under
the GEF Trust Fund
 GEF Trust Fund invested in about $3
billion in over 150 countries
– Mitigation
–Adaptation
–Technology Needs Assessments
– National Communications to the UNFCCC
 Largest multilateral public-sector
technology transfer mechanism
– Financed demonstration, deployment,
diffusion, and transfer of environmentally
sound technologies
Roles of the GEF in Climate Change Financing
 Catalytic
– Leveraged more than $18 billion in cofinancing on its $3 billion of investments
 Innovative
– Leader in financing new, emerging lowcarbon technologies (FCB, CSP, etc.)
– Pioneer in supporting market-based
approaches (e.g., ESCOs) and innovative
financial instruments
 Cost-effective
– Over 2.5 billion tonnes of CO2 avoided
– Amounts to slightly over $1/tonnes CO2
COP Mandate to GEF on Technology Transfer
 Poznan Strategic Program on Technology
Transfer (COP decision 2/CP.14)
– Support for Technology Needs Assessments
– Support for Technology Transfer Pilot
Projects
– Dissemination of successfully demonstrated
technologies and know-how
 GEF-5 replenishment
– $4.3 billion total (six focal areas)
– $1.4 billion for climate change mitigation
Guiding Principles for GEF-5 Strategy
 Responsiveness to Convention guidance
 Consideration of national circumstances of recipient countries
 Cost-effectiveness in achieving global environmental benefits
Strategic Objectives for GEF-5
 SO1: Demonstration, deployment, and transfer of
innovative low-carbon technologies
 SO2: Market transformation for energy efficiency in
industry and the building sector
 SO3: Investment in renewable energy technologies
 SO4: Energy efficient, low-carbon transport and urban
systems
 SO5: Conservation and enhancement of carbon stocks
through sustainable management of land use and
forestry
 SO6: Enabling activities and capacity building
Strategic Objectives for GEF-5SO1: Demonstration, deployment, and transfer of
innovative low-carbon technologies
GEF intervention under this objective will include technical
 Technical assistance for creating an enabling policy environment
for technology transfer, institutional and technical capacity building,
 Establishment of mechanisms for technology transfer, North-South
and South-South technology cooperation, purchase of technology
licenses, and investment in pilot projects.
 Project supported under this objective should clearly identify the
source of the technology and the target for the transfer, the scope
and the mechanism of technology co-operation and transfer, and
the market potential and strategy for replication.
 Project activities may include developing local capacity to adapt
exogenous technologies to local conditions and to integrate them
with endogenous technologies.
Strategic Objectives for GEF-5SO2: Market transformation for energy efficiency in
industry and the building sector
 In the industrial sector, GEF will support cover promoting energy
efficient technologies and practices in industrial production and
manufacturing processes (including agro-processing) especially in the
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) countries.
 In the building sector, GEF support will cover residential, commercial,
and public buildings, and include both new buildings and retrofitting of
existing buildings.
 Project activities may incorporate the use of solar energy and thermal
capacity of shallow ground for heating and cooling in the building
system. Emphasis will be placed on integrated and systemic
approaches and high performance buildings, appliances, and
equipment. Promotion of energy efficient cook stoves will be covered
under this objective..
Strategic Objectives for GEF-5SO3: Investment in renewable energy technologies
 GEF will support, on-grid renewable energy programs , decentralized
production of electric power and the use indigenous renewable
sources such as biomass, solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal.
 GEF projects can promote local SMEs to enhance their technical
capacities to provide installation, operation, and maintenance services
for renewable energy technologies.
 GEF support will extend to recovering methane from biomass wastes
for power generation or heat production.
 GEF support may also extend to supporting sustainable production of
biomass for solid and liquid biofuels as a substitute to fossil fuels where
appropriate conditions, including safeguard policies, exist.
Strategic Objectives for GEF-5SO4: Energy efficient, low-carbon transport and urban
systems
 Options for GEF intervention will include the following types of
activities ;transport planning, public transit systems, energy efficiency
improvement of the fleet, efficient traffic control and management,
transport demand management, and non-motorized transport.
 Technological options in the transport sector, such as promoting clean,
low-carbon vehicles..
 GEF projects will address not only climate change mitigation but also
local air pollution, traffic congestion, and access to affordable and
efficient transport and public utilities.
 GEF support under this objective will involve technical assistance in
transport and urban planning, development of innovative financing
mechanisms, awareness campaigns, and investments in highperformance technologies
Strategic Objectives for GEF-5SO5: Conservation and enhancement of carbon stocks
through sustainable management of land use and forestry
 In GEF-5, the GEF will expand the LULUCF program within the climate
change focal area and through cross-cutting projects linking to SFM as
well as biodiversity and land degradation focal areas.
 The objective on LULUCF during GEF-5 will be two-fold: one is to
conserve, restore, enhance, and manage the carbon stocks in forest
and non-forest lands, and the other is to prevent emissions of the
carbon stocks to the atmosphere through the reduction of the pressure
on these lands in the wider landscape.
 GEF intervention will cover the spectrum of land-use categories
reducing deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing carbon
stocks in non-forest lands, as well as management of peatland.
Strategic Objectives for GEF-5SO5: Conservation and enhancement of carbon stocks
through sustainable management of land use and forestry
 During GEF-5, the GEF will support activities that will develop national
systems to measure and monitor carbon stocks and fluxes from forest
and non-forest lands, strengthen related policies and institutions,
undertake good management practices with local communities, and
establish financing mechanisms and investment programs.
 GEF-5 has created a separate envelop of $250 million for funding that
will be operated as an incentive mechanism for beneficiary countries
willing to combine significant fractions of their STAR allocations from
biodiversity, climate change and land degradation for more
comprehensive SFM/REDD-plus projects and programs.
 For every three dollars of investment from STAR resources from two or
more focal areas allocated to a particular country, one dollar will be
released from the SFM/REDD-plus incentive mechanism to the project
being proposed.
Strategic Objectives for GEF-5SO6: Enabling activities and capacity building
 The GEF will ensure adequate resources to support non-Annex I
Parties to meet their obligation under the Convention. In addition, the
GEF will continue to fund the preparation and updating of TNAs,
especially for countries that did not receive support for TNAs during
GEF-4, in accordance with Convention guidance.
 Subject to emerging COP guidance, the GEF may finance activities to
support capacity building activities, implementation of Articles 6 of the
Convention on education, training, and public
 Options to be explored to support the carbon markets in GEF-5 may
include: (i) capacity building to help create enabling legal and
regulatory environments; (ii) support of programmatic carbon finance
and other activities under the post-2012 climate regime;
Contact Information
Ms. Chizuru Aoki
Coordinator-Climate Change
Mitigation
Email: [email protected]
Website:http://www.thegef.org/gef/site
s/thegef.org/files/documents/docu
ment/GEF-5_CC_strategy.pdf
LDCF/SCCF Climate Change Adaptation
Strategy
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
March 1 – 3, 2011
Belize City, Belize
LDCF and SCCF – a key role in global learning on
adaptation in practice
• LDCF and SCCF – funds whose priority is adaptation
• Managed and administered independently of from
the GEF Trust Fund
• Among the very first international funds to provide
financing for concrete on-theground adaptation activities
• Learning by doing: What is “adaptation”
in practice?
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Donor Funding of LDCF/SCCF
LDCF --$345M pledged from 23 donors
SCCF -- $186M pledged from 14 donors
 Total > $530 M
Allocated, Committed or Disbursed:
– 62 projects in 64 developing countries
through:
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LDCF for $156 million
SCCF for $100 million
– 45 National Adaptation Programs of
Action completed, 48 financed (LDCs) $12 M
As of 12/31/2010
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LDCF SCCF Adaptation Strategy: Pillars
• LDCF and SCCF Strategy pivots on
financing adaptation
• An increase in adaptation funding, in
order to support the increase in volume
and scale of intervention – e.g.
programmatic approach
• An increase in the predictability of the
funding, in order to better facilitate
medium-term planning
• Channeling GEF-managed adaptation
financing resources through LDCF and
SCCF – GEF-5 strategy does not include
adaptation.
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LDCF SCCF Adaptation Strategy: Pillars
• Responsiveness to UNFCCC guidance
• Responsiveness to vulnerable
developing country needs
• Moving to the next stage of LDCF and
SCCF funding – a programmatic
approach
• Responsiveness to Independent
Evaluations of the SPA and LDCF
• Complementarily among different
adaptation-related funds
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LDCF/SCCF Adaptation Strategy 2010-2014
• Goal: To support developing
countries to increase resilience to
climate change through both
immediate and longer-term
adaptation measures in
development policies, plans,
programs, projects and actions.
• Impact: Reduce absolute losses
due to climate change, including
variability.
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LDCF and SCCF Strategic Objectives
1.
Reduce vulnerability to the adverse
impacts of climate change – e.g.
reduced risks to economic losses
through implementation of adaptation
measures
2.
Increase adaptive capacity to
respond to the impacts of climate
change – e.g. within relevant
development sectors and natural
resources; diversified and
strengthened livelihoods and sources
of income
3.
Promote transfer and adoption of
adaptation technologies – as
defined under the Climate
Convention (example: SCCF-TT
Jordan)
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Pioneering Activities in Priority Sectors and Areas of
Intervention: LDCF
Food Security and Agriculture  drought resistant crop, farming
techniques
Water Resources Management  resilient water infrastructure,
rainwater harvesting, micro surface and ground water treatment
facilities
Disaster Risk Management  Integrated disaster risk management
strategies, glacial lake outburst floods hazard management
Community Based Adaptation  forest management, mangrove
restoration, alternative livelihoods, strengthened animal health systems
Natural Resources Management  efficient wood management,
ecotourism, fishing around mangroves, renewable energy use
Health  climate change challenges incorporated into health
programs, use of medicinal plants to treat diseases
Infrastructure  critical infrastructure
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Pioneering Activities in Priority Sectors and Areas of
Intervention: SCCF
Water Resources Management drainage and water-saving technologies,
increased reservoir capacity through energy efficiency of turbines
Agriculture/Land Management  drip irrigation, drought and salinity
resistant crop varieties
Infrastructure Development infrastructure for alternative water sources,
e.g. climate resilient roads and harbors
Fragile Ecosystems  repopulation of coral reefs, buffer zones and
biological corridors between vulnerable wetlands
Integrated Coastal Zone Management beach reinforcement and
nourishment, protection structures (e.g. jetties, groins, breakwaters)
Health  heat-wave warning systems, surveillance and response for malaria
epidemics
Disaster Risk Management  early warning systems
Cross Cutting Issues  information sharing systems to monitor crop
choices and contingency crop plans, and pest and disease severity
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Innovative Features of LDCF/SCCF
GEF TRUST FUND:
LDCF & SCCF:
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Incremental cost
Global benefits
STAR
Co-financing
Additional cost
NO Global benefits requirement
No STAR
Existing BAU Financing
Higher MSP ceiling for LDCF
Rolling basis approval for
LDCF
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Thank you!
For more information, please visit LDCF/SCCF websites:
LDCF: http://www.thegef.org/gef/ldcf
SCCF: http://www.thegef.org/gef/sccf
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