Mark Zimsky, Biodiversity Coordinator, Senior Biodiversity Specialist, Global Environment Facility

1. GEF-5 Biodiversity and SFM REDD+ Strategy Mark Zimsky, Biodiversity Coordinator, Senior Biodiversity Specialist, Global Environment Facility

2. Agenda • Introductory Remarks—CBD Secretariat • Overview of GEF-5 Biodiversity Strategy • Achievements to Date • Strategy Goal and Objectives within a Results Based Management Framework • Coherence between GEF-5 Strategy and the COP-9, 2010-2014 Programme Priorities • Opportunities to Promote Sustainable Forest Management and REDD+ • Question -- Answer

3. GEF Achievements in Biodiversity • $ 3.1 billion invested, $8.3 billion in cofinancingto support more than 1,000 projects in 155 countries • $1.89 billion invested in the creation and management of protected areas • Catalyzed the achievement of the target of 10% of the world’s terrestrial areas under protection: 2,302 protected areas spanning 634 million hectares, 700 globally threatened species, 30 billion tons of stored carbon • 40 conservation trust funds supported with $300 million • Over 265 million hectares of productive landscapes and seascapes became biodiversity-friendly • Largest financier of forests: $1.5 billion supplemented by more than $4.5 billion in cofinancing; more than 300 projects focusing on forest conservation and management • Pioneer investor in payments for ecosystem services schemes • Supported National Biosafety Frameworks in 123 countries • Enabled participation by civil society through the GEF Small Grants Program and the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

4. GEF-5 Biodiversity Strategy Goal The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem goods and services.

5. Biodiversity Strategy Objectives • The strategy encompasses five objectives: • improve the sustainability of protected area systems; • mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into production landscapes/seascapes and sectors; • build capacity to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; • build capacity on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing; and • integrate CBD obligations into national planning processes through enabling activities.

6. Responds to Key Drivers of Biodiversity Loss

7. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 1: Improve the sustainability of protected area systems.

9. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 2: Mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into production landscapes/seascapes and sectors.

10. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 3: Build capacity to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

11. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 4: Build capacity on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing.

12. Biodiversity Strategy Objective 5: Integrate CBD obligations into national planning processes through enabling activities

13. Coherence between GEF-5 Strategy & COP 2010-2014 Programme Priorities

14. Coherence between GEF-5 Strategy & COP 2010-2014 Programme Priorities

15. GEF Institutional Strategic Goals Institutional Level GEB Impacts Outcomes Outputs Focal Area Goal Focal Area Objectives Operating Level (bottom-up) Project Objectives A Snapshot of Results Based Management at the GEF

16. Biodiversity Portfolio Monitoring • Goal: Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem goods and services. • Impacts: • Biodiversity conserved and habitat maintained in national protected area systems. • Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity integrated into production landscapes and seascapes. • Indicators: • Intact vegetative cover and degree of fragmentation in national protected area systems measured in hectares as recorded by remote sensing. • Intact vegetative cover and degree of fragmentation in production landscapes measured in hectares as recorded by remote sensing. • Coastal zone habitat (coral reef, mangroves, etc) intact in marine protected areas and productive seascapes measured in hectares

17. The GEF-5 SFM/REDD-plus Program Upscaling the GEF’s Investments in sustainable forest management and REDD-plus to benefit forest biodiversity

18. GEF’s Comparative Advantages on Forest Financing • Forest management and conservation are central components of GEF’s mandate since its creation; the UNFCCC, the CBD, and the UNCCD all emphasize forests in achieving their Convention objectives • GEF provides ready-made financing platform by incorporating components and financial contributions from multiple focal areas, in particular land degradation, biodiversity, and climate change --$1.5 billion > $4.5 billion • Countries can generate multiple environmental benefits through the protection of forest habitats, ecosystem services flows, mitigation of climate change, reflecting the transversal nature of forests globally

19. GEF-5 SFM/REDD-plus Program • Goal: achieve multiple environmental benefits from improved management of all types of forests. • Potential projects: national forest policy reformulation, protected area management, capacity building for monitoring GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, certification of timber and non-timber forest products. • Funding will mainly derive from 3 GEF Focal Areas (Biodiversity, Climate Change and Land Degradation) • Own funding envelope ($250 million)

20. Financing SFM/REDD-plus in GEF-5 Climate Change I N SFM/REDD+ projects C SFM E GEF-5 Focal Area Allocations to SFM/REDD+ N T Biodiversity I V REDD+ E SFM/REDD+ projects Land Degradation SFM/REDD+ projects $750 million $250 million $2.8 billion $1 billion in total for SFM/REDD+

21. The GEF-5 SFM/REDD-plus incentive mechanism Investments from at least 2 GEF Focal Areas → maximizing multiple benefits 3:1 investment algorithm (e.g. $6 million from Biodiversity and Climate Change → $2 million from SFM/REDD+ account) Available for investments between $2 million and $30 million

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