financing biodiversity conservation and sustainable...
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Yoko Watanabe Asia Region & Gender and Social Issues Coordinator
Global Environment Facility 30 July 2015, Tokyo, Japan
Financing Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Experience of the Global Environment Facility
Overview of Presentation
1. Biodiversity loss2. About the GEF3. Biodiversity Focal Area
Achievements and Strategy4. Project Examples
Planetary BoundariesThe Earth Pushed to its Limit
About the GEF
GEF is the largest public funder of projects to improve the global environment.
Financial mechanism for the CBD, UNFCCC, UNCCD, POPs, and other international environmental agreements.
Since 1991, GEF provided total $13.5 billion towards over 3900 projects to support developing countries and economies in 165 countries.
GEF’s Six Focal Areas: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Int’l Waters, Ozone depletion, Land degradation, and POPs. Increased focus on integration.
GEF Achievements in Biodiversity
• $ 3.46 billion invested, $10 billion in cofinancing to support more than 1,200 projects in 155 countries
• $2.3 billion invested, with $6 billion in cofinancing, in creation and management of protected areas
• 3277 protected areas spanning 856 million hectares. Catalyzed the achievement of the target of 10% of the world’s terrestrial areas under protection:
• Conservation of over 700 globally threatened species, 30 billion tons of stored carbon
• Supported establishment of conservation trust funds in over 60 countries
• Pioneer investor in payments for ecosystem services schemes
GEF Achievements in Biodiversity (cont.)
• More than 292 million hectares of productive landscapes and seascapes became biodiversity-friendly
• Largest financier of forests: Investment of over 2.1 billion and 385 projects focusing on forest conservation and management
• Supported National Biosafety Frameworks in 123 countries
• Enabled participation by civil society orgs, indigenous peoples and local communities through the GEF Small Grants Program, Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, and others
Biodiversity GEF-6 StrategyGoal: To maintain globally significant Biodiversity and the ecosystem goods and services that it provides the society
BD1:
Improve Sustainability of Protected Area
Systems
1. Improvingfinancial
sustainability and effective
management of the national ecological
infrastructure
2 . Nature’s Last Stand:
Expanding the reach of the global
protected areaestate.
BD 2:
Reduce Threats to Globally Significant
Biodiversity
3. Preventing the extinction of known threatened species
4. Prevention, control, and management of
invasive alien species.
5. Implementing the Cartagena Protocol of
Biosafety
BD 3:
Sustainably Use Biodiversity
6. Ridge to Reef+: Maintaining integrity
and function of globally significant
coral reefs
7. Securing Agriculture’s Future:
Sustainable use of plant and animal
genetic resources.
8. Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit
Sharing.
BD4:
Mainstream Biodiversity into
Production Landscapes/
Seascapes
9. Managing the human-biodiversity
interface
10. Integration of biodiversity and
ecosystem services into development
and finance planning
GEF’s Grant Schemes
GEF Investment: - About $1.1 billion annually
- Biodiversity: About $ 400 million annually
Grant sizes:– Full-size project (above $2 million)
– Medium-size project (below $2 million)
– Small Grants Program (max $50000)
Grant modalities:– Country, Regional and Global Projects
– Programmatic Approach (i.e. umbrella program framework with sub-projects)
Strengthen Protected Areas Systems
Over 60 GEF projects in Asia, in almost all eligible countries.
Support including: Policy and legislation development and enforcement;
Capacity development;
Sustainable financing mechanism;
Inventory and monitoring;
Awareness raising and communication;
Livelihoods, including ecotourism.
Increase focus on marine and freshwater PAs to ensure representativeness.
Endangered Species: Tiger and its habitats
Support to the Global Tiger Recovery Program: GEF invested over $100 million, total 17 protected areas and landscape level projects.
Innovative approach: Habitat mgmt;incorporate biodiversity conservation in sector/development plans; SMART patrolling; Green infrastructure; sustainable financing mechanism; etc.
Core support on capacity building of protected areas management and working with surrounding communities.
Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production Landscapes and Seascapes: GEF Satoyama Project
Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity beyond PAs, mosaic of land use at the landscape and seascape level
Human-Biodiversity Interface
Type of Projects:• Policy and legislative
frameworks;• Planning tools and regulations;• Production practices in key
sectors; • Financial mechanism (PES,
valuation, etc)
