Biodiversity IPBES Participation in planning group and plenary meetings; 1st Meeting of STAP attended 1st Plenary meeting in January – Multilateral Expert BD#9 Participation in refining the terms of reference of individual 2013. STAP will continue to contribute to Panel assessments, contribution to specific assessments. IPBES through the work of the Multilateral Justification: GEF providing financial resources for IPBES; ensure Expert Panel (MEP) Sept 2013 – assessments are of relevance to GEF focal area programs. Discussion Paper May Finalization of discussion paper; preparation Biodiversity Mainstreaming Biodiversity – 2013 BD#10 and delivery of expert workshop Expert Workshop – Mainstreaming intervention types include the incorporation of the value Sept/Oct 2013 of biodiversity and ecosystem services into national and local financial Final publication – and development planning; in policy instruments; in achieving improved Guidelines for management practices in agriculture and other production sectors; in mainstreaming developing innovative financing mechanisms such as the payment for biodiversity Nov. 2013 environmental services, the certification of products and other supply chain interventions. Requested by GEF Secretariat Justification: Biodiversity Biodiversity and Climate Change discussion paper Begin scoping of work plan; – Nov/Dec 2013 BD#11 Develop of reference Expert Workshop Jan – Interactions between biodiversity and climate change have become ever 2014 more frequent and complex with important implications for the GEF – BD Strategy. Carbon sequestration from ecosystem restoration at scale has implications for the GEF CC Strategy. Global Warming & (Peters & Lovejoy, 1992) noted little measurable Biological Diversity impact in nature. (Lovejoy & Hannah, 2005) Climate & Biodiversity documented changes to biodiversity and ecosystems. Over the last 10 years there has been a surge in research in this area. The objective of this work is to review current science on impacts, with a view to proposing guidance for GEF programming. Climate STAP Operational Guidance on Developing Projects Addressing TOR Aug 2013 Work is underway to develop Operational – change Black Carbon and other STCF Mitigation Workshop end of 2013 Guidance on Developing Projects Addressing – mitigation Advisory Document Carbon at the GEF. A TOR will be issued – CC#10 first quarter of 2014 to assist in writing the technical aspects of this
Biodiversity BD#9 IPBES – Participation in planning group and plenary meetings; Participation in refining the terms of reference of individual assessments, contribution to specific assessments. Justification: GEF providing financial resources for IPBES; ensure assessments are of relevance to GEF focal area programs. 1st Meeting of Multilateral Expert Panel STAP attended 1st Plenary meeting in January 2013. STAP will continue to contribute to IPBES through the work of the Multilateral Expert Panel (MEP) – Sept 2013 Biodiversity BD#10 Mainstreaming Biodiversity Mainstreaming intervention types include the incorporation of the value of biodiversity and ecosystem services into national and local financial and development planning; in policy instruments; in achieving improved management practices in agriculture and other production sectors; in developing innovative financing mechanisms such as the payment for environmental services, the certification of products and other supply chain interventions. Justification: Requested by GEF Secretariat Discussion Paper – May 2013 Expert Workshop – Sept/Oct 2013 Final publication – Guidelines for mainstreaming biodiversity Nov. 2013 Finalization of discussion paper; preparation and delivery of expert workshop Biodiversity BD#11 Biodiversity and Climate Change Interactions between biodiversity and climate change have become ever more frequent and complex – with important implications for the GEF BD Strategy. Carbon sequestration from ecosystem restoration at scale has implications for the GEF CC Strategy. Global Warming & Biological Diversity (Peters & Lovejoy, 1992) noted little measurable impact in nature. Climate & Biodiversity (Lovejoy & Hannah, 2005) documented changes to biodiversity and ecosystems. Over the last 10 years there has been a surge in research in this area. The objective of this work is to review current science on impacts, with a view to proposing guidance for GEF programming. discussion paper – Nov/Dec 2013 Expert Workshop – Jan 2014 Begin scoping of work plan; Develop of reference Climate change mitigation CC#10 STAP Operational Guidance on Developing Projects Addressing Black Carbon and other STCF Mitigation TOR – Aug 2013 Workshop – end of 2013 Advisory Document – first quarter of 2014 Work is underway to develop Operational Guidance on Developing Projects Addressing Carbon at the GEF. A TOR will be issued to assist in writing the technical aspects of this
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