Programming directions for GEF-6

1. Programmingdirectionsfor GEF-6 ClimateChangeMitigation & Chemicals and Waste & “SignaturePrograms”

2. GEF-6 Refreshed Strategies to Address the Dimensions of Sustainability and Effective Delivery FoodSecurity SD Themes SustainableCities Forests Fisheries • Amazon • Commodities SignaturePrograms • Partnershipfor Africa • 50 in 10 • Cities Climate Change FocalAreaStrategyDelivery International Waters SustainableForest Management Biodiversity Land Degradation Chemicals

3. GEF and theConventions • The Global EnvironmentFacility: • 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

4. ClimateChangeMitigation • 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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Objective2 – 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

9. 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

10. 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 • Helpcountries to prepare National Communications, TNAs and BURs, as well as the implementation of NAMAs

11. 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 • SupportLeastDevelpedCountries (LDCs) and Small Island DevelopingStates (SIDs) totakeactiononharmfulchemicals and waste.

12. 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 plansProgram 2: Support global monitoring, development of registries, inventories and data collection • Expandcoverage of global monitoringsitestocover new POPs and mercury • Resultswill be usedbyConventionsfordecisionmaking

13. 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 • Deploymentof alternatives to DDT and other chemicals • Design of products and processes that minimize the use and generation of toxic substances and waste

14. 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 • Onlyapplicabletomanufacturing of appliances and foams

15. 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