OP 5

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OP 5 Removal of Barriers to Energy Efficiency
and Energy Conservation GEF-4 Strategic
Objectives in Climate Change Focal Area
Dmitry Goloubovsky, UNDP Belarus EE COP,
Bratislava, Sep 27-28, 2005
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Operational Program 5

• Overall objective
• removing barriers to large-scale application,
  implementation and dissemination
• cost-effective , EE technologies
• resulting in reduction of GHG emissions
• Barrier removal strategy
• Policy environment
• Available financing
• Business models and management skills
• Information and awareness
• Technology

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Climate Change SOs in GEF-4

• SO1 EE appliances and equipment
• Enabling policy environment for standards and
  labels
• Capacity building for manufacturers
• Consumer awareness raising
• SO2 industrial EE
• Most energy-intensive sectors with highest
  potential for savings
• Financial mechanisms, incl. non-grant financing
• Business models

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Climate Change SPs in GEF-4

• SO3 EE in construction sector
• Enabling policy environment for EE housing
• Promoting EE building designs
• Reform billing and metering systems
• Innovating financing schemes
• SO4 refurbishing of power plants
• Policy framework
• Capacity building
• Knowledge transfer
• Financial engineering

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Eligible initiatives under GEF-4

• EE housing in Belarus
• Overall gov-nt policy promoting EE
• Considerable gov-nt baseline
• Pilot EE building
• EE Committee and Ministry of Architecture and
  Construction supportive
• Barriers to be removed
• Enabling policy
• Building codes
• Financing mechanisms
• Awareness raising

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Programming Tips

• RAF limitations
• Sufficient commitment from gov-nt, both during
  and beyond project
• Specific barrier-intervention linkages
• Gov-nt commitment to improve efficiency of use of
  resources, incl. move from grants to loan
  financing
• Gov-nt policies encouraging EE

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Thank you!