Focal Area Strategies – Biodiversity, International Waters, and Chemicals

1. Focal Area Strategies – Biodiversity, International Waters, and Chemicals GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop February 15-17, 2011 Hotel Memling, Kinshasa, DR Congo

2. Biodiversity • Goal: the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem goods and services • Convention on Biological Diversity

3. GEF Achievements in Biodiversity • $ 3.1 billion invested, $8.3 billion in cofinancingto support more than 1,000 projects in 155 countries • $1.89 billion invested in the creation and management of protected areas • Catalyzed the achievement of the target of 10% of the world’s terrestrial areas under protection: 2,302 protected areas spanning 634 million hectares, 700 globally threatened species, 30 billion tons of stored carbon • 40 conservation trust funds supported with $300 million • Over 265 million hectares of productive landscapes and seascapes became biodiversity-friendly • Largest financier of forests: $1.5 billion supplemented by more than $4.5 billion in cofinancing; more than 300 projects focusing on forest conservation and management • Pioneer investor in payments for ecosystem services schemes • Supported National Biosafety Frameworks in 123 countries • Enabled participation by civil society through the GEF Small Grants Program and the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

4. Biodiversity Strategy Objectives • The strategy encompasses five objectives: • improve the sustainability of protected area systems; • mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into production landscapes/seascapes and sectors; • build capacity to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; • build capacity on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing; and • integrate CBD obligations into national planning processes through enabling activities.

5. Responds to Key Drivers of Biodiversity Loss

6. Biodiversity Portfolio Monitoring • Goal: Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem goods and services. • Impacts: • Biodiversity conserved and habitat maintained in national protected area systems. • Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity integrated into production landscapes and seascapes. • Indicators: • Intact vegetative cover and degree of fragmentation in national protected area systems measured in hectares as recorded by remote sensing. • Intact vegetative cover and degree of fragmentation in production landscapes measured in hectares as recorded by remote sensing. • Coastal zone habitat (coral reef, mangroves, etc) intact in marine protected areas and productive seascapes measured in hectares

7. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 1: Improve the sustainability of protected area systems.

8. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 2: Mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into production landscapes/seascapes and sectors.

9. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 3: Build capacity to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

10. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 4: Build capacity on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing.

11. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 5: Integrate CBD obligations into national planning processes through enabling activities (NBSAPs, national reporting)

12. International Waters include the oceans, coasts, Large Marine Ecosystems and connected river basins; transboundary rivers, lakes, groundwater basins

13. GEF International Waters Portfolio • GEF is largest investor in multi-country collective water & coastal management: $1.2 billion GEF & $6.1 billion co-financing. • 149 GEF recipient States cooperating with 23 non-recipient States on their shared water systems. • In working to reverse fisheries depletion, reduce water pollution, and balance conflicting water uses through IWRM, and protecting aquifers, GEF contributes to water, environment, and community security as well as regional integration.

14. GEF International Waters Ecosystem-Based Approach to Management of LMEs at Multiple Scales • Large Marine Ecosystem Scale ( South China Sea LME-UNEP) • Coastal Municipality/Provincial ICM scale (Da Nang, Vietnam - UNDP PEMSEA) • River Basin Linkage Scale (GPA Mekong River Basin/delta - World Bank) • Local Community-based Demo Sites (PhuQuocFish Refugia Vietnam- UNEP)

15. New Features For GEF 5 IW Focal Area Strategy • Four strategic objectives approved; $US 440 million. • No longer thematic priorities; back to original 1995 strategy with multiple drivers needing to be addressed if they are important to the transboundary system • Climatic variability and change explicitly included for freshwater basins and LMEs and their coasts • Aquifers/groundwater explicitly included for true integrated water resources management (100 x water) • ICM Critical in all marine projects for climatic variability

16. Background to GEF Chemicals Management • GEF is the financial mechanism for the Stockholm Convention (SC) on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). • GEF is the largest public funder for Chemicals management • 5 GEF agencies are active in POPs projects UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO, World Bank and FAO. • GEF supports implementation of the Montreal Protocol (MP) in Countries with Economies in Transition (CEITs). GEF widely credited with sharing the success of the MP so far with amounts phased out in Russia and CEITs roughly equivalent to amounts phased out in all developing countries.

17. Chemicals Management • Brings together POPs, ODS and Sound Chemical Management for increased coherence • $425 million allocated to chemicals. The distribution of resources is as follows: • POPs: $375 million • Ozone: $25 million • Sound chemicals management and mercury reduction: $25 million

18. POPs Outlook for GEF-5 • Increased attention to potential for synergies with other focal areas, in particular with climate mitigation and releases of un-intentionally produced POPs (dioxins). • Proposal to address chemicals in a more comprehensive manner, whilst keeping focus on mandate as financial mechanism to the Stockholm Convention.

19. Sound Chemicals Management • Activities are intended to support synergistic interventions that generate multi-focal area benefits through projects that significantly contribute and produce positive impacts towards the fulfillment of obligations in relevant conventions (including Stockholm Convention, Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention to Combat Desertification, and others).

20. Mercury Reduction • Demonstration of mercury reduction activities through • Reducing mercury use and exposure in Artisanal and Small- scale Goal Mining (ASGM) • Enhancing capacity for safe storage • Reducing atmospheric emissions of mercury • Improving data and scientific information at national level • Managing wastes and contaminated sites

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