The primary goal of the NAPA process is to broadly communicate to the international community priority activities that address Sudan’s urgent needs for adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change.

Within the overall objective of the Stockholm Convention, which is to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project will: (i) prepare the ground for implementation of the Convention in Antigua and Barbuda; (ii) assist Antigua and Barbuda in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; and (iii) strengthen Antigua and Barbuda’s national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals generally.

This GEF Biodiversity Enabling Activity (EA) will assist Angola to prepare a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP). The BSAP will guide the design and implementation of interventions to realise the country’s commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity. Funding is further being allocated for the country to prepare its First National Communications to the Convention. The EA will draw on best practices from earlier BSAP processes and recent guidance for BSAP’s prepared by the GEF and CBD- COP’s.

The taiga ecosystems of the eastern part of the Republic of Komi represent the last examples of extensive virgin forests in Europe, and the largest expanse of relatively unfragmented forests on the continent. Their location on the western slopes of the Ural Mountains means that they are ecologically unique, as both European and Siberian flora and fauna are co-located. The Virgin Komi Forests were placed on the UNESCO World Natural Heritage list for their value as one of the most important natural sites in the boreal forest region.

The objective of the National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment (NCSA) is to identify country level priorities and needs for capacity building to address global environmental issues, in particular biological diversity, climate change, and land degradation, and the synergies between them, with the aim of catalyzing domestic and/or externally assisted action to meet those needs in a coordinated and planned manner.

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