Targeted Research Related to Climate Change is a climate change enabling activity and targeted research project funded by the GEF and the Government of China, implemented by the UNDP, and executed by the Chinese State Development Planning Commission. The principal aim of the project is to enable China to strengthen and develop capacity in research areas of relevance to compliance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate (UNFCCC) and to generate research results that may be used in formulating climate change related policy.

The project is to remove the key barriers to the implementation of selected, economically feasible en-ergy efficiency technologies and measures in the residential and the service sectors in Croatia, thereby reducing their energy consumption and the associated greenhouse gas emissions. The initial focus of the project will be on the counties of Istria and Rijeka, after which the activities are sought to be repli-cated in other parts of the country.

The objective of the proposed project is to foster a large increase in energy efficiency investment in Romania through development of a self-sustaining, market-based mechanism. The project’s goal is focused on the development and implementation of commercially viable energy efficiency investment projects, which can provide sustainable and increasing reductions in GHG emissions without public subsidy.

Shrimp exploitation by tropical trawl fisheries generates significant amounts of non-shrimp by-catch. In some countries, by-catch has become an important source of income and contributes to food supply. In others, by-catch of fish, particularly small-sized, is discarded at sea. The capture of juveniles of valuable food fish constitutes a threat to the sustainable production of fish from an area. Extensive removal of non-target fish is also a threat to the biodiversity in a fishing area.

The overall goal of the Project is to foster and encourage, at a regional level, collaboration and partnership in addressing transboundary environmental problems of the South China Sea between all stakeholders and at all levels. The Project also seeks to enhance the capacity of the participating governments to integrate environmental considerations into national development planning.

This project catalyzes the implementation of the Strategic Action Program for the Bermejo River Binational Basin.

The project will promote biodiversity conservation in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. Among the protected areas in Mexico, the Sierra Gorda has the highest degree of biodiversity, due to great altitudinal variations and a heterogeneous rain pattern. It harbours a total of 14 vegetation types, several of global importance, with high levels of species endemism, presence of charismatic species and the unique representation of a transition zone between two bio-geographic regions.

Identification of climate change technology needs. Capacity-building to address climate change technology needs. Climate change education and awareness. Preparation of programs to address climate change.