GEF Focal Area & Cross Cutting Strategies Climate Change Mitigation

1. GEF Focal Area & Cross Cutting StrategiesClimate Change Mitigation benoit.lebot@undp.org GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop Central Africa Constituency  15-17 February, 2011 Hotel Memling, Kinshasa, DRC

2. Can we avoid Climate Change? NO Can we reduce Climate Change? YES

3. The International Context encourages climate change mitigation activities • The Cancun COP 16 confirms the target of maintaining global warming below 2°C • Each country to develop National Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) • The price of conventional energy is high & will continue to rise • Role of deforestation understood & accepted

4. World Greenhouse Gas Emissions 14% CH4 8% N2O F Gas 1% CO2 From Combustion CO2 From LUCF 59% 18%

5. Mainstreaming CCRM into UNDP Core Activities- RBA RR Cluster Meeting Greenhouse gas emissions in Sub-Sahara countries 5% 20% CO2 CH4 N2O 11% CO2 From LUCF F Gas 0% 64%

6. Source: IPCC AR4, Synthesis Report (shares are for 2004)

7. All sectors & regions have the potential to contribute Note: estimates don’t include non-technical options such as lifestyle changes

8. 1 2 3 4 Trend in Green House Gases Behavior & Waste Efficiency Renewable Energy REDD & Sequestration Low Carbon Path

9. The goal of GEF Climate Change Mitigation is to support countries toward a low-carbon development path • Promote low-carbon technologies • Promote energy efficiency • Promote renewable energy • Low-carbon urban transport • Sustainable management land-use change, & forestry (LULUCF) • Enabling Activities & Capacity Building

10. GEF 5 promotes low-carbon technologies 1.Technologies demonstrated, deployed & transferred 2. Enabling policy environment and mechanisms Prevision $300 M (out of $1 350 M GEF 5)

11. GEF 5 promotes energy efficiency 1. Policy, legal and regulatory frameworks 2. Sustainable financing mechanisms Prevision $260 M (out of $1 350 M GEF 5)

12. GEF 5 promotes renewable energy 1. Policy and regulatory frameworks 2. Increased investment in RE technologies Prevision $320 M (out of $1 350 M GEF 5)

13. GEF 5 promotes sustainable urban transport • Legal and regulatory frameworks • Increased investment in sustainable transport Prevision $250 M (out of $1 350 M GEF 5)

14. GEF 5 promotes the Conservation & enhancement of carbon stocks through LULUCF 1. Good management practices in LULUCF 2. Restoration and enhancement of carbon stocks in forests and non-forest lands (peatlands) Prevision $50 M (out of $1 350 M GEF 5)

15. GEF 5 supports enabling activities & capacity building • National Communications and Other Obligations under the UNFCCC • Countries can also receive support for vulnerability & adaptation assessments, capacity building, and technology needs assessments Prevision $50 M (out of $1 350 M GEF 5)

16. GEF CC Mitigation & Carbon Finance • capacity building to help create enabling legal & regulatory environments; • support of programmatic carbon finance & other activities under the post-2012 climate regime; • demonstration of technical and financial viabilities of technologies; • partial risk guarantees and contingent financing for carbon finance projects; and • co-financing of innovative projects, with credits to be retained in the recipient country for further project replication.

17. Features of GEF & CDM

18. GEF & CDM: “Rule of Thumb” in the Past

19. Climate Change Mitigation under GEF 5 • Focal Area Allocation$1,360 million • Under STAR$1,088 million • Contribution to Sustainable Forest Management $100 million .

20. As Climate Changes, Can We? Kofi Annan, UN SGWednesday, November 8, 2006

21. A

22. Thank you for your kind attentionbenoit.lebot@undp.org