Operational Strategy and Climate Change Operational Programs

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Operational Strategy and Climate Change
Operational Programs
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The Focal Areas of the GEF

• Biodiversity
• Climate Change
• International Waters
• Ozone Depletion (only countries in transition)
• And Land Degradation as it relates to the above
  focal areas.

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Ten Operational Principles

• The GEF will function under the guidance of, and
  be accountable to the CoPs.
• Provide new and additional, grant and
  concessional funding to meet agreed global
  environmental benefits.
• Ensure the cost-effectiveness of its activities
  to maximize global environmental benefits

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Ten Operational Principles (cont.)

• Fund projects that are country-driven and based
  on national priorities to support sustainable
  development.
• Maintain flexibility to respond to changing
  circumstances.
• Fully disclose all non-confidential information.

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Ten Operational Principles (cont.)

• Provide for consultation with and participation
  of beneficiaries and affected groups of people.
• Eligibility requirements are set by CoPs.
• Emphasize its catalytic role and leverage
  additional financing from other sources.
• Ensure that its projects and programs are
  monitored and evaluated regularly.

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Types of Eligible Projects

• Enabling Activities
• Short-term Response Measures
• Operational Programs, which address long-term
  priorities of the Convention

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Enabling Activities

• Defined as planning and endogenous capacity
  building (institutional strengthening, training,
  research education) to facilitate
  implementation of effective response measures.
• Priority was on Enabling Activities for the
  Preparation of Initial National Communications
• Expedited Procedures, top-ups and full projects
• Largest portfolio (number of projects), small
  total allocations, dominates relations with
  Convention.

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Short-Term Response Measures

• -- Small portfolio
• Criteria for project review
• High Country Priority
• High likelihood of success
• Cost-effectiveness of better than US 10/TC
• -- Most like CDM, PCF projects

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Biodiversity Operational Programmes (OPs)

• 1. Arid and semi-arid ecosystems
• 2. Coastal, marine and freshwater ecosystems
• 3. Forest ecosystems
• 4. Mountain ecosystems

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Climate Change Operational Programmes (OPs)

• 5. Removing barriers to energy conservation and
  energy efficiency
• 6. Promoting the adoption of renewable energy by
  removing barriers and reducing implementation
  costs
• 7. Reducing the long-term costs of low greenhouse
  gas emitting energy technologies
• 11. Promoting environmentally sustainable
  transport

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International Waters OPs

• 8. Water body-based program
• 9. Integrated land and water multiple focal areas
• 10. Contaminant-based program

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New Operational Programs

• Integrated Ecosystem Management
• (Multi-Focal -- No. 12)
• Agricultural Biodiversity?
• (Biodiversity -- No. 14)
• Capacity Development?(Multi-Focal -- No. 15)

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Scope of OP 5 (par. 5.8)

• Electricity production distribution
• Industrial energy consumption
• Manufacturing processes
• Effective use of energy-intensive materials
• Combined heat and power technologies
• Manufacture of energy-efficient equipment
• Rural and agro-processing industries
• Passive heating and cooling commercial
  buildings district heating cooling

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Scope of OP 6 (par. 6.10)

• Mechanical wind pumps
• Low-temperature solar thermal heat
• Biomass and geothermal heat
• wind, biomass, PV, small-hydro (rural electricity
  supply)
• grid-connected renewable energy
• storage systems
• biogas digesters

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Scope of OP 7 (par. 7.7)

• Grid-connected PV
• Biomass Gasifiers and gas turbines
• Solar Thermal (Parabolic Troughs)
• Large-scale grid-connected Wind power
• Fuel Cells for distributed combined heat power
  applications

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Scope of OP 11 (Sustainable Transport)

• Modal Shifts to more efficient and less polluting
  forms of public and freight transport
• Non-motorized transport
• Fuel-cell or battery operated 2- and 3- wheelers
• Fuel-cell or battery operated vehicles for public
  transport and goods delivery
• IC-engine-electric hybrid buses
• Advanced Biomass to Liquid Fuels Conversion

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Climate Change emphasis

• Assess the economic scope of energy conservation
  or renewable energy technologies
• Estimate how much the project will reduce
  greenhouse gases
• Identify all key barriers
• Propose measures to remove barriers, and estimate
  their costs, and
• Demonstrate the sustainability of win-win
  projects