GEF component will protect and manage globally-significant biodiversity in 13 forest nature reserves in Sichuan, Hainan and Hunan provinces. Associated IBRD/EU project will develop new forest resources, manage natural forests and redress the social and economic impacts of the government's logging ban on local communities.

The goal of this project is the reduction of the growth rate of GHG emissions from fossil fuel fired combustion processes and unutilized biomass waste through the acceleration of the growth of biomass-based power generation and combined heat and power (CHP). The main idea is to supplant part of the current fossil fuel consumption for power generation in Malaysia using biomass resources from the country's palm oil industry. The project purpose is to develop and exploit the energy potentials of biomass waste resources in the country through biomass-based power generation and CHP.

SUMMARY This project will help catalyze the cost-reduction of fuel-cell buses (FCBs) for public transit applications in Chinese cities by supporting significant parallel demonstrations of FCBs and their fueling infrastructures in Beijing and Shanghai. In collaboration with the Chinese national government, the municipal governments of Beijing and Shanghai, and the private sector, the GEF and UNDP will assist the public transit companies of Beijing and Shanghai to obtain 6 FCBs each and to operate these over a combined total of 1.6 million km.

The project aims to integrate and adopt environmentally sustainable approaches to management of natural resources within a strengthened institutional framework at local, state and federal levels in the target macro-watershed areas including those within support zones around targeted protected areas.

CRESP is a pilot for the World Bank-GEF Strategic Partnership for Renewables. It takes a programmatic approach to secure long-term structural change. The main global benefits of the project are (a) the removal of multiple barriers to the introduction of cost-effective renewables in China; (b) the reduction in cost and improvement in performance of small hydro, wind and selected biomass technologies; and (c) an increased market penetration of renewables in China and consequent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from power generation.

The proposed project will make Croatia’s economy less energy intensive by establishing an economically and environmentally sustainable market for energy efficiency projects and services. It will do so by creating a core developer of energy efficiency projects within HEP, the national power utility. The new energy service company, ESCO, will promote, develop and finance energy efficiency projects.

The project’s development objective is to contribute to the improved sustainable and equitable management of Ecuador’s biological diversity by strengthening the effective management and financial sustainability of its National Protected Areas System (NPAS). The global environmental objective is to conserve and sustainably manage globally important forest and freshwater ecosystems in Ecuador, one of the 17 megadiverse countries in the world.

The overall project objectives are to: Eliminate the policy, institutional, financing and information barriers that impede the market development for renewable energy in Cambodia so that rural people can have increased access to electricity services; and accelerate rural transformation by expanding electricity access by offering: (i) technical assistance and capacity building for key stakeholders, and (ii) investments in renewable energy systems for isolated mini-grids using hydro sources and in off-grid solar and village hydro.

The development objective of this highly innovative pilot project is to improve eco-systems functioning of degraded pasture lands in Colombia, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, through the development of more intensive silvopastoral systems that provide global environmental services and local socio economic benefits.

The proposed project would enable VDHC to compete more effectively in the heating market, supporting the development of heating supply at least cost while improving customer satisfaction. The project would also reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from the Vilnius District Heating System through a targeted effort to remove the existing barriers to energy conservation.