Dr. Howard Nelson Biodiversity Specialist Ministry of Planning, Housing and the Environment Trinidad and Tobago

 Development of Adaptation Strategies based on Climate Change Induced Dengue Outbreaks;  Pilot - Solar water-heating and lighting for State institutions and government –funded housing;  CNG Pilot for Public Transportation;

 Policy and legislative reform analysis for transition to renewable energy and alternative fuels;  Vulnerability, adaptation and impact of climate change on nesting marine turtles;  Biofuels and waste management;  Assessment of the impact of climate change on coral reef carbonate budgets;

 Monitoring of rare terrestrial ecosystems threatened by climate change;  Mapping, designation and management of critical wildlife corridors in agricultural and urban landscapes;  Gap-analysis of priorities for marine protected area designation;

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area – Climate Change  Proposed GEF Agency – UNEP

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Development of regionally applicable models for dengue epidemic forecasting under climate change scenarios;  Provide a means to forecast climate-change mediated dengue outbreak risk;  Provide a tool for government to predict and manage outbreak events;

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Identification of 8 study communities  Pre- and post- education intervention surveys  Establishment of microclimate monitoring systems in 4 study communities  GIS modeling of dengue forecasting at study sites GEF Costs, cofinancing, etc  Not determined

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area – Climate Change  Proposed GEF Agency – UNDP

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Development of a national cost-benefit analysis for use of Best Available Technology for solar lighting and heating;  Increased awareness and buy-in by State agencies for the transition to renewable energy;  Increased public awareness and acceptance of renewable energy in lighting and heating;  Reduction of national carbon-emissions;

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Identification of new State buildings for deployment of technologies;  Establishment of a monitoring systems to determine renewable energy system performance;  Cost-benefit analysis;  Development of national policy on use of renewables based on project evaluation; GEF Costs, co-financing, etc  Not determined

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area – Climate Change  Proposed GEF Agency – UNDP

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Increased awareness and buy-in by State agencies for the transition to renewable energy;  Increased public awareness and acceptance of use of CNG in transportation;  Reduction of national transportation based carbon-emissions;

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Identification of State fleet vehicles for deployment of technologies;  Establishment of a monitoring systems to determine renewable energy system performance;  Cost-benefit analysis;  Development of national policy on use of renewables based on project evaluation GEF Costs, co-financing, etc  Not determined

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area – Climate Change  Proposed GEF Agency – UNDP

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Increased awareness and buy-in by State agencies for the transition to renewable energy and alternative fuels;  Identification and development of policy instruments for mainstreaming renewable energy and alternative fuels in the energy, transport and agricultural sectors;  Reduction of national carbon-emissions by transformation of policy and legislative framework for renewable and alternative fuels use in Trinidad and Tobago;

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Comprehensive analysis of existing policy and legislative framework to determine challenges to renewable and alternative fuels nationally;  Development of recommendations to modify existing national policies to increase the attractiveness of renewables and alternative fuels;  Draft new national policy on the use of renewables and alternative fuels GEF Costs, co-financing, etc  Not determined

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area – Climate Change/Biodiversity/Cross-cutting  Proposed GEF Agency – UNEP

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Clearer understanding of the threat posed by climate change to nesting habitat of these globally threatened species;  Identification of potential habitat management interventions to ensure protection of marine turtle nesting habitat;  Reduction of reduction of extinction risk to marine through climate change by reduction of impact on nesting beaches;

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Analysis of known nesting beaches and their potential for erosion through wave action;  Modeling of climate change impact on rates of nesting habitat erosion;  Identification of potential mitigation activities to protect these habitats; GEF Costs, co-financing, etc  Not determined

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area – Climate Change  Proposed GEF Agency – UNDP

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Transformation of a waste-stream of used oils to a biodiesel fuel stream;  Reduction of waste oils contamination of surface waters;  Reduction of reduction of carbon emissions through reuse of waste oils and use of biodiesel;

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Analysis of potential sources and volumes of waste edible oils nationally;  Cost-benefit analysis of the collection processing and use of edible oils for biodiesel ;  Development of collection and processing mechanisms for waste edible oils; GEF Costs, co-financing, etc  Not determined

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area – Climate Change  Proposed GEF Agency – UNEP

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Development of an understanding of climate change and ocean acidification on coral skeletons;  Provision of a model for rates of coral loss through ocean acidification;

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Establishment of 2 coral research sites in Tobago and Jamaica;  Assessment of the contribution of ocean acidification to suite of stresses facing coral systems  Modeling long-term impact on reef extent and implications for sustainable livelihoods GEF Costs, co-financing, etc  Not determined

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area – Climate Change/biodiversity/ cross-cutting  Proposed GEF Agency – UNEP

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Identification of key elements of monitoring system for threatened ecosystems;  Develop model of rate of habitat loss;  Provide a means for assessing the risk to habitats for species of global importance

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Use of local NGOs and CBOs to establish permanent monitoring sites in cloud and montane forest;  Training of forestry department, NGO and CBO partners in identification of target species;  Development of spatially-explicit model for rates of response of forest communities to projected climate change, GEF Costs, co-financing, etc  Not determined

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area –biodiversity  Proposed GEF Agency – FAO

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Identification of potential wildlife corridors which can make significant contribution to maintaining biodiversity in habitat fragments in urban/agricultural;  Development of policy and administrative mechanisms to protect important wildlife corridors;  Provision of means to reduce ecosystem decay and demographic stochasticity for globally threatened species in habitat fragments

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Identification through remote sensing and GIS modeling critical wildlife corridors;  Development of administrative and policy mechanisms to ensure protection of corridors identified as important on the landscape;  Development of training tools for use by Forestry Department, NGOs and CBOs GEF Costs, co-financing, etc  Not determined

 Current status - draft project document  GEF Focal Area –biodiversity /IW  Proposed GEF Agency – UNEP

Major outcomes (Global Environmental Benefits & National Sustainable Development Benefits)  Identification of a priority list of marine areas within Trinidad and Tobago’s national jurisdiction for designation as protected areas;  Development of an estimate of ideal spatial extent of the marine protected areas system;  Develop a national consensus on the identification and designation of MPAs

Main Project activities and link to national strategies  Identification of candidate sites for MPA status through remote sensing and GIS modeling;  Conduct focus group consultations to determine degree of support for designation of candidate MPAs;  Capacity building within management agencies; GEF Costs, co-financing, etc  Not determined