The Hai River discharges into the Bohai Sea which adjoins the Yellow Sea. Both seas contain globally important ecological resources that provide significant fishery benefits to China, North and South Korea and Japan. The Hai River is also a major source of irrigation and drinking water for tens of millions of people who live in its basin. However, the river and its tributaries are severely polluted (most above Class V, the worst category), and the basin’s groundwater resources are in some cases polluted and being rapidly depleted.

This project seeks to provide a strong base for the Africa Land and Water Initiative in the contexts of the respective countries' development programs.

The overall objective of the project is to assist developing countries to promote and enhance the protection and sustainable development of the mountains and their resources globally, as a contribution to the International Year of Mountains, WSSD and BGMS. Through collaboration among GEF implementing agencies and other partners this MSP will identify best practice in GEF and non-GEF projects dealing with biodiversity, climate change, and international waters in the context of integrated management of mountain ecosystems.

The principal objectives of LADA project are two-fold. First, to develop and implement strategies, tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation and the overall ecosystem resilience of dryland ecosystems at a range of spatial and temporal scales. The assessment will integrate biophysical factors and socio-economic driving forces.

The goals of the proposed project are: (i) a reduction of carbon emissions from unsustainable slash-and-burn agricultural practices in the Miombo woodlands; (ii) the conservation of globally significant biodiversity; and (iii) improvement of the food security of the local population. In order to achieve these goals, the project will promote a shift in land management from the currently practised chitemene system to a sustainable land management system, based upon integrated ecosystem management (IEM) and conservation farming (CF) principles.

This project will demonstrate cost-effective, environmentally sound, and locally appropriate alternatives to DDT for malaria vector control, ensuring their sustainable use through strengthened national and local capacity for malaria control.

The objective of this Enabling Activities proposal is to strengthen national capacity and to enhance knowledge and understanding amongst decision makers, managers, industry, and the public at large on POPs to develop a National Implementation Plan. By achieving this objective Czech Republic will meet the obligations of the Stockholm Convention and be enabled to manage the elimination of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

The primary objective of the proposed project is to advance the use of renewable biomass as an energy resource, for the purpose of promoting sustainable rural development in Egypt and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from conventional energy resources.

The PECSME project is proposed to address the barriers to widespread adoption of energy conservation measures and practices in Vietnam’s SME sector identified during the PDF-B funded project design. The project is designed to provide an innovative program approach by integrating a range of complementary components and activities into an overall synergistic program.

The project will identify and address the barriers to large-scale commercial utilisation of wind power and help to establish an IPP-friendly environment. The South African power system relies heavily on coal (+90%) resulting in high carbon emissions. Wind energy is projected as a possible substitute but has so far not been developed in a major way, reasons being several market entry barriers, including the sector policy, (assumed) technology risks and uncovered incremental cost of wind power.