GEF
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 June 2011: The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) held a mid-term review conference, highlighting efforts to conserve species and sites in the Polynesia-Micronesia Biodiversity Hotspot, which is rich in plant and animal life.
CEPF is a joint programme of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the World Bank, the French Development Agency, the MacArthur Foundation, Conservation International, and the Government of Japan. The CEPF US$27 million fund for the Polynesia-Micronesia...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 June 2011: At its 14th meeting, held in Bonn, Germany on 22 June 2011, the Adaptation Fund Board approved US$17.4 million in grant funding and accredited the National Environment Fund of Benin as the fourth National Implementing Entity and the West African Development Bank as the first Regional Implementing Entity.
The grant funding was approved for Maldives, Mongolia and Turkmenistan. All three projects will be implemented by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). The Maldives project focuses...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 July 2011: The Government of the Cook Islands has announced the launch of the Renewable Energy Chart – Te Atamoa O Te Uira Natura, which outlines how to achieve the target to produce 50% of electricity from renewable sources by 2015 and 100% by 2020.
The chart, supported through Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Abatement through Renewable Energy Project (PIGGAREP) funding, highlights the plan to develop a new wind monitoring system. The PIGGAREP is financed by the Global Environment...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 July 2011: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has reported on the Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas Abatement through Renewable Energy Project (PIGGAREP), which is being implemented in 11 Pacific island countries.
Countries participating in the US$5.23 million renewable energy project are Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
PIGGAREP, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF),...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
19 July 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approvoved the first four projects to access incentive funds available for sustainable forest management (SFM) and REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stock) under the GEF Incentive Mechanism for Forests.
The four projects in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Jamaica and Turkey will receive funding from the GEF...
