Refreshed Strategies to Address the Dimensions of Sustainability and Effective Delivery Biodiversity Land Degradation Climate Change Chemicals International Waters Sustainable Forest Management Sustainable Cities Food Security FisheriesForests Focal Area Strategy Delivery SD Themes Signature Programs Amazon Commodities Partnership for Africa 50 in 10 Cities

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

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-5 SO 1: Tech transfer SO 2: Energy efficiency SO 3: Renewable energy SO 4: Transport and urban SO 5: LULUCF SO 6: Enabling activities GEF-6 Objective 1, Program 1: Promote timely development, demonstration and financing of low carbon technologies and policies Objective 1, Program 2: Develop and demonstrate innovative policy packages and market initiatives to foster a new range of mitigation actions Objective 2, Program 1: Promote integrated low- carbon urban systems Objective 2, Program 2: Promote Conservation and Enhancement of Carbon Stocks in Forest, and other Land-Use, and Support Climate Smart Agriculture Objective 3, Program 1: Integrate findings of Convention obligations enabling activities into national planning processes and mitigation targets Differences Focus on earlier stage of innovation and tech transfer, risk taking, complementarity with other funds Support for voluntary innovative measures, such as performance- based incentives, etc. Vínculos con la iniciativa especial para ciudades, foco en la gestión urbana sistemática Inclusion of agriculture and N2O and methane, link to signature initiative on food security Connecting Convention obligations and enabling activities with national planning and articulating ways to achieve mitigation targets

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 More emphasis on the earlier phases of the innovation chain, where risk mitigation is needed The focus is technologies which are not yet commercially available and market ready in the considered country contextet

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, particularly those that articulate in the National Communications, BURs, and other assessments a need for policy packages that would efficiently mitigate their emissions while maximizing their economic benefits. Offer the possibility for countries to test an innovative incentive mechanism of payment for emission reductions based on an ex-post performance based financing 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 Promotion of sustainable production and consumption practices to de- couple urban growth and resource use, to reduce use of persistent organic chemicals (POPs) and other chemicals, methane emissions, mercury or lead, and e-waste generation 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 or agriculture projects that are robustly structured in their design and scope to significantly mitigate climate change (including management practices by local communities) Go beyond GEF-5 efforts on CO2 emissions and sequestration from the agriculture and forestry sectors and to include activities targeting the CH4 and N2O emissions of these sectors. Need to focus on the forest-agriculture nexus since agriculture appears to be 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 to 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