Integrated approaches: Piloting a new way to achieve global environmental benefits Roland Sundstrom Climate Change Specialist May 28, 2015.

Integrated approaches:Piloting a new way to achieve global environmental benefits

Roland SundstromClimate Change SpecialistMay 28, 2015

• address key drivers of environmental degradation at global or regional scales;

• tackle most urgent issues that may become too costly to reverse;

• enhance synergies across focal areas;• complement country programming with trans-boundary,

regional and global action;+ stronger partnerships and financial leverage

Why integrated approaches?

Three priorities• Taking deforestation out of commodity supply chains;• Sustainable cities; and• Fostering sustainability and resilience for food security

in Sub-Saharan Africa

$160M set-aside, of which $50M and $45M of the food security and sustainable cities programs, respectively, to be used as incentive for countries to invest their STAR allocations at a 1:1 ratio

Taking deforestation out of commodity supply chains (1/2)• GEF funding: $45M; co-financing: $443M• palm oil, soy and beef are priority commodities• key countries in South East Asia, Latin America

and West Africa from the production perspective

• domestic, international and global multinational buyers from the demand perspective

Taking deforestation out of commodity supply chains (2/2)Program goal: reduce the global impacts of agriculture commodities on deforestation, climate change and biodiversity by meeting the growing supply and demand of commodities through means that do not lead to deforestation

Adaptive management and learning

Support to production

Generating responsible demand

Enabling transactions

Sustainable cities (1/2)

• 11 countries; 23 cities• partnership with city network institutions and 8 GEF Agencies, including

World Bank (lead), ADB, AfDB, DBSA, IADB, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO• GEF funding: $150M; co-financing: $1.48bn

Program objective: promote an approach to urban sustainability that is guided by evidence-based, multi-dimensional, and broadly inclusive planning processes that balance economic, social, and environmental resource considerations

Global coordination and knowledge sharing- tools and metrics;- sustainability planning support;- knowledge management;- capacity building;- financial sustainability;- global engagement facility;

Sustainable cities (2/2)

Child projects- Brazil;- China;- Cote d’Ivoire;- India;- Malaysia;- Mexico;- Paraguay;- Peru;- Senegal- South Africa;- Vietnam;

• GEF funding: $120M; co-financing: $805M• 12 countries across four target geographies: Burkina Faso, Burundi,

Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda

• Six GEF Agencies: IFAD (lead), UNDP, FAO, World Bank, UNIDO, UNEP, CI

Fostering sustainability and resilience for food security (1/2)

Program objective: Support countries in target geographies to integrate priorities to safeguard and maintain ecosystem services into investments improving smallholder agriculture and food value chains

Regional capacity building and knowledge services

Institutional frameworks

Scaling up integrated approaches

Monitoring and assessment

Fostering sustainability and resilience for food security (2/2)

Country child projects

mbakarr@thegef.org (food security, IAP coordination)ksundstrom@thegef.org (food security)igray@thegef.org (commodities)caoki@thegef.org; xtan1@thegef.org (sustainable cities)

Thank you